Code-2

“A seamless lie is like a good glass of scotch; perfectly flavored, smooth and utterly enjoyable.”
I wrote this on a whim for a story I was working on and it received such a good reaction in class I decided to share it with all you bored people.
You may bow before me.
Don’t be afraid. If you’re [...]

Looking back, it seems odd how much music has and does influence me. My dad was the first to introduce me to ‘real’ music, that is music composed by life-long musicians who search for something more than popularity and fame when composing new pieces.
Sadly, attempting to dance to King Crimson’s “21st Century Schizoid Man” requires [...]

The firefighter persona has many components to it. We have to be macho. We have to have stomachs of steel (not for the gruesome things we see, but for the even more gruesome shitty pizza we have to eat.)
We are stoic. Nothing fazes us cause we have seen it all. We just stand there with [...]

A few days ago I came back from the station after a night of firefighting drills. Unfortunately I had managed to get water all over my jeans and as such was still wearing my turnout pants when I entered the elevator to my apartment.
I was not alone.
Inside was another tenet, carrying a few groceries and [...]

Occasionally I would like to get a little glimpse of humanity while on duty. I’m sick of wives “falling over” and getting a black eye even though her husband coincidentally split his knuckles. Or how as much as we explain it to her, the six-month pregnant woman still wont stop using cocaine.
Just once I would [...]

So for all of you people who are marginally interested in what goes on at Code-2, there is a new short in the Short Stories section.
I wrote it on a whim after talking with one of my writing professors. It’s a pilot story, just something to get out and see if anyone likes where it [...]

I’m sitting in a class which is for freshman who have just left home and don’t know how to eat properly without putting on thirty pounds a quarter. It’s horribly boring and completely pointless but I have to have it for graduation.
For most of the assignments, the teacher doesn’t take into account that I might [...]

Most everybody can figure out that there are certain hardships that go along with being a firefighter. We’re taught them when we’re in training. We know that our muscles will fail while in a burning building because all the water is gone.
We know that every time we run lights and sirens, the likelihood of us [...]

Firefighter Jones carries a small figurine of the virgin Mary attached to the inside of his bunker gear for luck, even though every person in the Company already has a small, green shamrock on their helmet for that very purpose. Some say that it makes him unlucky.
When we put our turnouts on, Corey always touches [...]

It can be difficult at times to find some peace and quiet while on duty.
If you do, the moments are often fleeting; tones frequently go off at the most inopportune time.
However, there is one place that a firefighter might be able to get in a few minutes of alone time.
The bathroom.
I use the one in [...]