Remember the movie "A Christmas Story" where little Ralphie anxiously awaits the arrival of his Lil' Orphan Annie Secret Decoder Ring? Well after ordering "B-Shifter" I too found myself anxiously going to the mail box hoping my crisp copy would be there. One fine afternoon, it happened, there among the bills and junk mail was a large manilla envelope... I immediately ran home and like Ralphie locked myself in the only room in the house where a "boy" of 36 could find privacy... the crapper! I peeled back the cover with Nick's menacing mug shot and 80's Ron Jeremy porn quaft (that's jealousy talkin') and began the adventure! Two hours later and a prolapsed rectum (that's where your butthole turns itself inside out, for all you fellow B-Shifters) from sitting too long I emerged with a new found zeal for life.
Awesome book Nick, that was well worth the wait! Thanks for chapter one too... giving some "props" to your father and delving slightly into the early mentality of firemen during that era of the PFD. It put a lot of things into perspective while I served my time as an A-Shifter, secretive questions that I was too afraid to ask were answered... like "why is it every time I walk by a mirror I have a strange urge to fix my hair and flex, or how come when I hit the rack at night I rub lotion on my feet and put cucumber slices over each eye?" Thanks for getting me through the "valley of the shadow of A-Shift".
GOD SAVE THE RAGIN' QUEEN!!!
"Reputations Last Longer Than Lives"