/authors/yashi/ Recent content in Yashi on Utopia Stories Library Hugo en-us /stories/28438/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /stories/28438/ <p><strong>Chapter 1</strong></p> <p>The ambulance pager jarred me awake. I rolled out of bed, glanced at the clock and grabbed my cloths all in one, practiced motion.</p> <p>&ldquo;Shit, only 10:30,&rdquo; I swore softly, but in good humor. Since my wife was killed ten years earlier I had started talking to myself. In her memory, I had founded the ambulance service that now demanded my undivided attention.</p> <p>&ldquo;The tone,&rdquo; the dispatcher started, &ldquo;is for ambulance 69A1 respond code 3 with duty crew to 19 Maple Lane for a possible heart attack. Maple Lane is off Deer Run Road. To all responding units be advised the roads are snow covered and very slippery. Repeating. . .&rdquo;</p>