I'd like to hear from other "members" who are interested in writing...perhaps a book they've always had in their head or just short stories or stories of incidents they's experienced on-the-job as a fireman, Police officer or EMT...anything at all really...

Everybody has a "war story" to tell and it's fun to hear these...some exciting, some sad and many of them funny as hell.

I write stories about life in a small NH town during the fifties. But my son is a police officer in Laconia, NH where they have the annual summer motorcycle gathering, Hells Angels and all. So I listen to his stories and then I write them down in dramatic form , recorded logically so they will make some sense and in chronologic form where they can kept and later read by him when he retires...it might be fun to recall these crazy and sometimes dangerous events. Some of them would certainly make great TV dramas. I also write about sport shooting, turkey shoots, dumb stuff that I've experience when I was young and stupid...some stories that would make you wince and squint your eyes and say "OOOOOO, Gawd but that's real scary!... I wouldn't have done that !" Like when I was 12 and used to take turns while me and my buddy would shoot empty good 'n plenty boxes out of each other's hands and forty paces with .22 rifles! ....you read that right...reeeeelly stupid stuff! I suppose I should also add the warning: "Don't try this at home!" Cuz it was also realllly dumb...But like I wrote in a chapter of my book, "its a wonder I got out of that litttle old NH town alive!"

I have also written historical articles that tell about a certain firearm and how is was used in history...just some interesting stuff (maybe more for guys than the gals) So if you'd like to share some stuff you've written, give me a hollar ! (that's "redneck" for give me a shout!) It takes all kinds.

Best wishes for a safe and successful New 2008 !

BLACKIE IN BEDFORD, NH