"Passion of the job, and each other."
I joined a rural volunteer fire station in NW Arkansas about a year and a half ago. I’m one of the only women on the department. My main goals were to help my community, stay fit, learn something new, and...
Lieutenant Madeleine Johnson was exhausted, and properly so. She had earned the right to be fatigued. Sixteen hours she had been here with her team today, most of those hours spent outside on the nondescript lawn in front of the Public...
"Emergency management..."
Decorated with a fire-scarred five storey concrete building, surrounded with pitted pavement dotted with all manner of wrecked vehicles--or the husks of those vehicles. Two buses, one articulated, hung forelorn and broken on a hillside, windows long since smashed, tree...
Jolene looked out the window, the setting sun creating beautiful red skies and colouring the fresh white snow in the glen. She lost herself in the beautiful setting, slowly sipping the Glenfiddich in her hand, the gamey sweet smell of...
"Will the fire that rages within consume her before the external heat?"
The moment I hear the strike of the match against the box I know I'm in more trouble. The whoosh of oxygen racing to fuel the flame. The fizz and crackle as it catches. The flicker that the blindfold makes...
Come with your lightAnd visit my darknessLike a beacon shining her radianceDriven to capture my lustSharing your dreamCome with the windSo that your mind may openLike a bird that rides on the thermals Driven by the thermals of lustRiding your dreamCome as...
"A young woman finds herself in the company of the one man who can take everything away."
Say what you like about Hell, the place is certainly toasty. Sure, it gets lonely with just Mum, Dad and me rattling around the caves, but it beats the surface. I find the world so cold. Bitter. Hateful. Guess Dad...
"When an angel starts to daydream"
I can’t stop thinking about you,You have captivated my mindI need to feel your touchI want you to claim what I hideLike a flame burning in the darkStarving to igniteAll I need is the right guidanceTo fulfill all that is...
"can we relight the passion that burned out long ago"
It was a cold winters night, the sky was crystal clear. We were snuggled under a blanket, on the couch. In the chimney, the flames cast a warm glow as the fire roared drowning the howl of the wind outside.The...
"The gift of life and love"
You have seen the shape of my mortalityThe inescapable struggle of loneliness and pain Yet, you choose to give me the gift of life and loveAnd I am unflinchingly aliveIrrepressibly aliveFully alive Full of experiencingEvery fragileMiraculousJuicyAchingTenderBeautiful ounce of loveIgniting the fire that...
