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Weekly Contest #124
Words: 2463 The Fight of the Century FDNY Lieutenant Mike Mose worked a night tour in midtown Manhattan, replacing the regular officer, who was off that night on Death Leave. It was his father in law’s time to visit that dark matter. After roll call, Mike drifted to the firehouse kitchen to get acquainted with the strangers he commanded that night. The kitchen conversation got around to the boys last night out as a group of ten watching the Golden Glove finals at the old Madison Gardens. Of course, they rooted for the few white guys who co...
The Dentist and Colonel Bogie Words: 2682 Replacement Lieutenant Mike Mose had a weekday off from his hated FDNY light duty assignment, cane, and all, when a phone call interrupted his early morning breakfast resulting in a stare down with wife, Mary. After the fifth ring, she gave in, as Mike made sure he had enough egg yolk on his bacon, before putting it away into his food-friendly throat. The tone of the conversation, he did not like. All she kept saying, was, “Oh he’ll do it, oh it’ll be all right with him, and sorry I can’t do it – I...
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