Josh Hirsch
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Hello fellow nerds. I'm a writer, reader, a girl daddy, husband and high school teacher. Welcome to a space for my creative, albeit sometimes dark, silly, sarcastic and intoxicated mind!
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Charlie's Web
Charlie’s Web: Part 1 Eight years of working homicide cases and this is the first time I found a body in a barn. There aren’t exactly a bunch of them in Police District 2 of the city of Denver. Sure, maybe twenty years ago, okay more like fifty, this area was nothing but farmland. Now, it’s filled with homes worth more than a half million dollars and more gourmet coffee shops than I care to imagine. This is where I grew up, my ‘hood. Except for this one, tiny little sliver of land that never joined the 21st century, I can tell you anything you want to know. So of course, someone had to find a body here.
By Josh Hirsch5 years ago in Fiction
The Age War
The Age War: My name is William Ecclesiastes Schumacher and I am not alone. From around the country, we’ve converged. Washington, DC. Over two million of us. United. In protest. We protest the never-ending wars, the skyrocketing national debt, protecting the environment, and the lack of action on any issue important to our generation.
By Josh Hirsch5 years ago in Fiction
The First Hour
THE FIRST HOUR I never knew that baby girls were capable of projectile peeing. The pee lands on the dresser and like mortar fire creeping closer to its target, my favorite hat is in the path of destruction. As I race to remove it from the line of fire, the trajectory changes and I am caught midface by the warm, sticky stream of urine.
By Josh Hirsch5 years ago in Families
