Lee Lofland

Many of us had our first real look at a sheriff’s office back in 1960 when Sheriff Andy Taylor and his fearless deputy, Barney Fife, patrolled the roads around Mayberry, […] The post Sheriffs: Cops, or Not?

The call—a child in need of services.

The Twelve Nights Of Graveyard Shift On the first night of graveyard my sergeant gave to me, a car-tri-idge and a cuff key.

Morning parade.

If I’ve heard it once, I’ve heard it a thousand times—Never start a story with the weather.

It was a new novel, the third in her latest series, and, as always, in the early stages of the process the seasoned author required a new notepad for jotting […] The post Writers, Name Your Poison appeared first on Lee Lofland.

Working the first 240 minutes of the graveyard shift, when the crazies and criminals come out to play, and when many normal and sane folks allow alcohol and drugs to […] The post In the Midnight Hour: A Cup of Joe, Maggots, Memories, and Run-On Sentences…

This is what it looks like to peer down-range from behind a Thompson fully-automatic submachine gun.