Name: Dr. Sid Hammerback

Fandom: CSI: New York

Word Count: 922

Cremation or burial? Talk about funeral arrangements.When she died, my wife had it in mind that she would like to be cremated and spread over some flowers in Central Park. If our children met an unfortunate fate before they were old enough to decide for themselves, then they would, ( Read more... )

Name: Dr. Sid Hammerback

Fandom: CSI: New York

Word Count: 1053

In the event of a zombie apocalypse, what would you do?A zombie apocalypse? What fun! I suppose, not so fun, on the inside of the matter, if you are being pursued by the brain hungry un-dead, by beings intent on your imminent destruction and recruitment into the legion of mindless ( Read more... )

Name: Dr. Sid Hammerback

Fandom: CSI: New York

Word Count: 742

What do you think?My wife and I used to do silly things together, the kind of things they talk about in romantic comedies, the kind of things that young couples wish for, and old couples fail to notice because they’ve become used to the familiar spontaneity. We never found it ( Read more... )

Name: Dr. Sid Hammerback

Fandom: CSI: New York

Word Count: 1161

Schadenfreude.Love can be about the satisfaction and scintillating pleasure derived from your lover’s misfortune. Their pain turned to your emotional gold, as can be felt by the people who indulge in the pain, pleasure, dominance triad, the trio of concepts that the submissive ( Read more... )

Name: Dr. Sid Hammerback

Fandom: CSI: New York

Word Count: 890

What are you wearing?What a peculiar question to ask. I suppose not so peculiar as I have been asked such a thing many times before, by many, many, many different people of varying ages, and genders. Over the phone, over email, via handwritten letter, text message, sticky note, I ( Read more... )

Name: Dr. Sid Hammerback

Fandom: CSI: New York

Word Count: 987

Customer service.Some people call what I do for a living public servant. I am a public servant, that is what they call me. Considering it, yes, I do provide a service, and to the public at that, but my job is more than that. In investigating the cause of death, in cutting open and ( Read more... )

Name: Dr. Sid Hammerback

Fandom: CSI: New York

Word Count: 1057

Are you an only child? Write about your siblings or lack thereof.Ah, yes, I am an only child. Not for lack of love on the part of my parents, but life in New York City, like is does in many other places I am sure, simply carried us on our way before we knew what was what. One year ( Read more... )

Name: Dr. Sid Hammerback

Fandom: CSI: New York

Word Count: 859

"That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version." - Chuck Palahniuk (Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories)I once worked a case where a child had drowned in a pool after being caught in the massive ( Read more... )

Name: Dr. Sid Hammerback

Fandom: CSI: New York

Word Count: 714

What question do you most dread?There is nothing quite telling parents that their only child is dead. It silently implies a fact that many parents fear, that they will have no chance to have further descendents, that their lineage, whatever constitutes it, may have come to an end. ( Read more... )

Name: Dr. Sid Hammerback

Fandom: CSI: New York

Word Count: 927

"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" (Who watches the watchmen?)Opening up his eyes, Sid stretched his hands up in the air, watching his fingers as they bent and unfurled themselves over and over in an attempt to shake his upper extremities out of fuzzy edged sleepiness. His eyes were ( Read more... )