Broken Badge

From the eyes and ears of a former police dispatcher is a collection of stories that are so shocking, it is hard to believe that they could be true. But they must be true. Because there is no way that incidents such as those described could possibly be made up by anyones imagination. Anita Gunn exposes the corruption, the dirty tricks, and the just plain nastiness of those who abuse the power entrusted to them. But somehow, she manages to maintain her courage while she is fighting against the Broken Badge.

The Broken Badge is a collection of my poetry about grief. Although my writing is greatly influenced by my own experience as a police widow, everyone interprets these poems according to their unique life experiences. It is my hope that as you read my poems, that those with grieving hearts will realize that they are not alone on their journey, that others have felt all of the bewildering and sometimes out of control emotions too, and realize, eventually, we do smile and find laughter once again. I have tried to arrange my poems in an order to help guide one’s grief along, acknowledging the losses, anger, and fear that we feel, while also attempting to show that there still is joy out in the world.....it just may take a while to find it....or in my case, longer than some. But today, the sound of laughter once again fills my ears....and it is my own!

The novel is set at a prison camp where the inmates are allowed to go into town to work and earn money. At the start the camp is calm and collected. Then a man was sent to the camp as a punishment for wrongs he did and turned the whole camp upside down. The captain tried to stand up for his men and the inmates but was told as a warden he did not need a captain who was in his mind nothing but a figure head. Then this warden left under strange circumstances and the older man that should have been dismissed a lot earlier, all the warden's took pity on him, and kept him around. His first assignment was to get rid of the captain. This captain was stepping on too many toes to help everyone and the department could not take this type of behavior.

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