Blue Byline » night shift http://blog.thenewstribune.com/bluebyline A cop's perspective of the news and South Sound matters Mon, 20 May 2013 05:57:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Graveyard shift can suck the life out of you http://blog.thenewstribune.com/bluebyline/2012/04/22/graveyard-shift-can-suck-the-life-out-of-you/ http://blog.thenewstribune.com/bluebyline/2012/04/22/graveyard-shift-can-suck-the-life-out-of-you/#comments Sun, 22 Apr 2012 23:36:36 +0000 Brian O'Neill http://blog.thenewstribune.com/bluebyline/?p=1674

I knew a vampire once.

He had dark hair and pale skin and his clothes were a midnight blue. He usually woke up just as the last rays of the sun were winking out on the horizon. Give or take a few minutes.

My friend wasn’t especially adherent to the strict regimen of vampires – bloodsucking, for one, was not on his list of to-do’s. But then, strictly speaking, he wasn’t a traditional vampire. He was a cop on the graveyard shift.

What separated my friend from countless people working the night shift was this unique decision: He changed his …

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