{"id":1628,"date":"2008-04-23T11:59:01","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T15:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2008\/04\/23\/short-story-%e2%80%9cterminal-employment%e2%80%9d\/"},"modified":"2008-04-23T12:00:11","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T16:00:11","slug":"terminal_employment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2008\/04\/terminal_employment\/","title":{"rendered":"Short Story: \u201cTerminal Employment\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/terminal.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"terminal.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tim Driscoll\u2019s story, centered around the Buffalo Central Terminal, was a runner up in the Buffalo News short fiction contest.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I drove my Crown Vic down Fillmore Avenue. Winter in Buffalo. Things were quiet. Fillmore was lightly peopled, everyone behaving. Salty cracks veined the street\u2019s asphalt surface, parallel to the curb. An old cop once told me the cracks were from buried trolley tracks. The crackle of the department radio broke the silence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDispatch to Detective Devoe, what\u2019s your 10-20?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I grabbed the mic, \u201cDevoe north on Fillmore at Broadway.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProceed to Central Train Terminal Memorial Drive, breaking and entering reported.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCopy that, Devoe enroute.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffalonews.com\/entertainment\/booksliterature\/story\/288752.html\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Driscoll\u2019s story, centered around the Buffalo Central Terminal, was a runner up in the Buffalo News short fiction contest. I drove my Crown Vic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-b-f-places"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Wcy1-qg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}