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I will NEVER forget September 11, 2001.
I had worked an overnight shift at my EMS job and was asleep when my wife called from her job and asked, "What the hell is going on in New York?" My father was flying out of Newark on business that morning and saw the North Tower burning when his plane took off.
I spent hours watching the coverage, calling my dad's cellphone to try to get ahold of him, and then had to try to get some sleep before another overnight shift in my city that night. My dad's plane had to land in Ohio; he banded together with others from our area, and they all drove home in a rental car.
My city was unusually quiet that night, but those of us in public safety were unusually focused and quietly angry, as were the folks who worked in my city's hospitals.
Today is the 25th anniversary of that day, my generation's Pearl Harbor Day.
Do I blame ALL Muslims for what happened that day? Absolutely not; that seems as ridiculous to me as blaming all Japanese for Pearl Harbor.
Be a good PERSON.
An eagle-eyed reader noticed some errors in "A Very Good Day" (thanks, Jim), so I've submitted a corrected version to be reposted once the moderators can get to it.
Spotted a misquoted saying from J. Robert Oppenheimer at the beginning of the story, a grammatical error at the end of the story, and the fact that the story repeats. Correction inbound.
EDIT: Correction posted.
EDIT #2: I guess I need to make sure that the story is ACTUALLY correct on my end before resubmitting it… I’ll upload another version of the story later today…
Hi, everyone –
I’ve reposted a cleaned-up version of a fan-fiction story that was previously posted on SOL last year (and turned on comments — sorry that I had that set wrong).
Next week, posted along with the next-to-last chapter of “A Glass, and Darkly,” will be a story that I started years ago, but never finished or published before.
I’m HOPING that this means that my muse is starting to slowly return, but we’ll have to wait and see on that one.
A new short story was posted today.
While I don't feel much drive to write these days, this story is important to me. I can't go into why it's important, but suffice it to say that it is.
Hope you all enjoy it...
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