My Shift Supervisor had been a cop for as long as I had been alive. He laughed with a snarl and boasted a vintage 1970’s mustache that rivaled industrial size push-brooms. In a small department like mine his promotion to sergeant — and then lieutenant —...
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...
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...
D-Day: June 6, 1944, 0130 Hours Before the renowned storming of the beaches of Normandy, a secret British mission securing a key strategic bridge behind Nazi lines had already taken place. A small force of British airborne troopers, carried silently by three Horsa...
All eyes were on me. My embarrassment was palpable. You might as well have given me a nice paper cut and poured lemon juice on it. Back in the day we went to all medical calls; Code 3 no less. This one happened to be in a well-to-do neighborhood right before dusk. The...
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