These stories and such
below were posted on the ALL E! Fan fic list in answer to this
challenge:
Write an Emergency story/vignette etc in the style of a
well-known author or genre.
Thanks to Northlander for both her
challenge idea
and for archiving her responses with her other stories on Guest Dispatchers.
Northlander's answers:
#1
It was a slick and stormy night outside. We’d just finished a run and thought a cup of Joe was a
good idea. Rampart Hospital Cafeteria doesn't have the best coffee, but then everybody needs to come in out of the rain sometime.
Name's Roy DeSoto. I'm a paramedic with LA County. My partner is John Gage. Johnny was telling me about his latest skirt. Somebody named Dolores. Johnny's stories were always the same. She dumped him. Poor schmuck.
[Cue sappy saxophone music]
A shadow crossed our table. As I sat watching the rain, I didn't see that Doll-face had walked into the room. Her name's Dixie McCall. Not my type, but a good lady to have around. Anyway, it didn't matter. She was
sweet on one of the sawbones. But, it wasn't going anywhere.
"Hi, boys," she said soft and low. I knew it was gonna be a long night.
~*~*~
#2
Star date 19-77, Captain's Log
We have set course for a home in the Carson County sector, called 132 Paramount Drive. There we will rendezvous with Truck 8 to investigate curious gas emissions from the street's surface. A landing party consisting of Firefighters Lopez and Kelly as well as Engineer Mike Stoker and myself, Captain Stanley has been dispatched. We have been ordered by LA County command to investigate these emissions in response to a distress signal received from the local inhabitants. In our absence, the station house is under the command of Paramedic Roy Desoto.
Stanley out.
~*~*~
#3
There once was a engineer named Stoker
Who fought flames that blazed like a poker
He used lots of water
As the flames, they got hotter
And he always got a helluva a soaker
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