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J Norton

Sinead, Barbie, a Torrent of Hard Tears — my dead dog Lulu

Sinead, Barbie, a Torrent of Unbottled Tears — and Lulu

Aug 6, 2023

Aug 6, 2023

Two Versions of the Paths Frequently Not Taken

This January, the shift before I learned of the LAPD killing of Keenan Anderson, I had two calls that weighed heavily on me — directly…

May 7, 2023

May 7, 2023

T.V., the Drug of a Nation

Americans suffer from comfort delusion. We don’t like being told what to do. We think our fuzzy conception of the Constitution…

Dec 16, 2020

Dec 16, 2020

Effluvium

In nature, there is no evil, only an abundance of horror; the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots. Isak Dinesen

Jul 30, 2020

Jul 30, 2020

9. Cars — R — Coffins

I’ve been to a handful of fatal wrecks, including my first traumatic DOA. I have been spared decapitations, on-scene emergency amputations…

Jul 28, 2020

Jul 28, 2020

Chapter 3. Your Friends and Neighbors (excerpt)

The streets are full of insane and dull people… (C. Bukowski)

Jul 27, 2020

Jul 27, 2020

Ante Up.

‘Practice doesn’t make perfect, it just makes the game more dangerous.’ Doomtree

Jul 24, 2020

Jul 24, 2020

J Norton

J Norton

DC born and raised; Boston schooled; Midwest --> middle age. Firefighter/EMT and writer. TRAUMA SPONGES: Dispatches from the Scarred Heart of Emergency Response

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