I've worked for the city as a 911 call taker the last, going on twelve years. You hear stuff. One minute it's a guy who robbed the local Best Buy (make that tried) of a PS4 console, tripped and fell in the parking lot busting his head open in the process -- so now he's got a brief hospital visit to look forward to, followed by a longer stint in jail -- next it's a man playing with his pet puppy, which ended up biting clean through his penis (do. not. ask.) and EMS has to walk him through how to contain the bleeding while his girlfriend laughs uncontrollably in the background.
Not to mention, of course, random conflicts among senior citizens involving tasers.
It can put your mind in a place. Which brings me to my first script “Shifting" which was a finalist of last year’s of 13horror contest. I think I wrote this as a way of staying sane in my most un-sane of professions, as well as out of genuine affection for werewolf cinema.
