Bring Out Your Dead And Check Your Assumptions

Bring Out Your Dead And Check Your Assumptions

On a warm summer night we were dispatched to a third floor apartment for a report of a shooting, with little to no information. (This is known as par for the course). But it wasn’t the first body that startled us, it was the second.  Ah, midnight shift. So much...
Dear Chief

Dear Chief

Sometimes putting things on the roof of your car is a bad idea. It was summer, and in the Northeast working a road construction detail is a surefire money-making scheme. And at the time, it was about the only way to make extra money since overtime was scarce and my...
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

The house was creepy.  The old woman standing outside was in her nightgown, barefoot, with a medication bottle clutched in her hand. And then she invited me in. Before I even pulled up she was standing at the gate of her chain-link fence awaiting my arrival. The...
Going The Extra Mile

Going The Extra Mile

It was Christmas morning, and he was dead. I had some questions. In middle school and high school making fun of the handicap kid was the easy thing to do. Everyone else, it seems, was doing it, so why not go along with it? That’s the sad rationale of immaturity and...