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true-autistic-tales · 2 years

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lovesickness, chapter 2 "the party"

"the chin-up" |</3

lovesickness is an au/fanfic made by me and has my experiences of being lithromantic and transgender but mostly lithromantic with some mommy issues as well tbh

warnings for this chapter: underage drinking, intimacy 👀

also keep in mind that new chapters will release extremely infrequent and that i am a beginner writer, thank you

the story under the cut

9:50pm, only a few minutes until the party. axl stood up in his room, looking over to his little brother, sleeping peacefully. a smiled was placed on axl's face but quickly removed as he walked over to the window and opened it, sean waiting for him outside. before he hopped out the window, he glanced at brick again and quietly wished; "you and sue deserve better."

axl walked up to sean, sean grinning at him. "you ready?"

"i guess i am"

near the entrance to the house party, cars and other teenagers littering outside. now that axl actually thought about it, he had no idea who was hosting the party but they did seem flirty in the invite text. axl, sean and darrin walked into the house to be greeted with more teenagers and stereotypical red plastic cups everywhere. axl suddenly felt anxious, wanting to stay in a corner with what felt like his only friends for the rest of the night, but something instantly caught his eye. an attractive tall african american boy siting on a couch, he was drinking something out of a plastic cup and was staring at axl. axl felt uncomfortable being so fondly stared at, thankfully sean noticed and nudged him, signaling that their group would be going into a different room.

they made their way to a different room which was the kitchen and somehow more messy than the livingroom but instead of plastic cups thrown everywhere it was empty glass alcohol bottles. sean frowned, even though he was an adolescent teen, he still hated alcohol and such of the like. darrin had other ideas; "this party ain't too bad." he tried lightening up the disappointed group, raiding the cupboards for food. "you think there's gonna be some pretty girls here?"

"yeah, probably," sean began smiling to him. "there's a lot of people here." sean turned to axl, suggesting that they should go off with some girls for the night, axl chuckled at him.

"who the fuck is going through my cupboards again?!" the attractive boy came into the kitchen angrily until he realized axl was there. "oh hi, sorry for staring so much at you, you're just so hot." he apologized and placed his hand out which axl accepted until the boy said the last part of his sentence. "im hutch, well, my actual name is charles but everybody calls me hutch." hutch beamed at him, staring at him again. "i don't think ive met you before, what's your name?"

"oh, um, axl- axl heck." axl awkwardly answered hutch, hoping sean would get him out of this like he did before. hutch lovingly smiled at him; "welcome to the party, axl!"

"thank you, dude." axl could practically see hutch's thoughts about him, he sorta liked it in a way.

"ahem! other people in the room too?" sean made a loud coughing noise to get hutch's and axl's attention toward him and darrin.

"oh, right, sorry fellas." hutch faced them, trying to be as polite as possible. "you would like a drink?"

"no thanks, im not into alcohol." sean declined, shaking his head with darrin, if they were caught drunk, they would be killed by their families, metaphorically speaking.

"axl?" he slided to the socially awkward teen, rising an eyebrow jokingly.

"i don't have a lot to lose, sure." axl stated, shrugging his shoulders. unlike his firends, he didn't care about what people thought of him anymore, or that's what he liked it think about himself. he knew he would get into deep shit and he secretly wanted it. hutch handed him a plastic cup with the alcohol and he chugged the whole thing before dropping and stomping it on the floor to everyone's amazement. axl felt a quick rush through his body then an instant warm low, he made a involuntary "ahhuck!" noise from the feeling and taste. "another." he command, hutch chuckled and bit his lip while sean and darrin began to worry.

"remember to go easy with the drinks, buddy." sean warned axl but he didn't take, he just wanted the feelings to go away. he hated those feelings and those memories of his parents hating him, he wanted to forget, please let him forget.

everything was getting blurry, axl had forgotten how many drinks he had but he knew that he somehow made it to hutch's bedroom,they were cuddling and axl's favorite song was softly playing somewhere in hutch's room. "do you know how fucking gorgeous you are?" hutch stroke axl's cheek, giggling a bit. he didn't know how to feel anymore, the alcohol did its work. he finally didn't worry about frankie and mike for this moment but he should have guessed what hutch had plans to do. hutch held axl's face and looking longingly into his eyes, after a while hutch lightly kissed axl on his lips. axl pulled in closer, holding hutch's hips. axl loved this, he loved disobeying his parents. he knew that identifying as a boy then playing with another boy would make his parents unbelievably pissed, and he loved it but still something in his head was screaming; "either get me off or get off me now!" axl didn't want to listen to that voice, he wanted to live. the boys chuckled as they rolled over each other, making out on hutch's bed. axl was finally free for the night and damn he was going to enjoy all of it even if he got that feeling, that feeling undescribable of disgust but he pushed on. and on. "i love you, ax." and on.

"i love you, charles." and on.

#the middle #axl heck #sean donahue #darrin mcgrew #charles hutchinson #fanfic #fanfiction #beginning writer #writer #lovesickness

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beyondglass · 2 years

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I may be a lesbian but I'm willing to oversee that for one man

#sean Donahue #the middle

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presentincommunalareas · 2 years

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Parole Violators (1994)

#parole violators #Patrick G. Donahue #Sean P. Donahue #90s action movies #90s thriller movies #cult films #vhs #present in communal areas

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tomcherryoldtimeradioshow · 8 days

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Tom Cherry’s Old Time Radio Show presents The Mysterious Traveler on April 27, 2024 at the Farmland Community Center at 3:00pm! The show also features two original radio plays by local playwrights, Cliff Lowe and Beth Nahre! A lucky audience member will get a chance to play It Pays to Be Ignorant and Judy Cole sings!

Starring Sean Orlosky, Bob Green, Missy Donahue, Katy Wolfe, Jeff Shull, Jeff Rapkin, Larry Beck, Debby Girtman, Thomas Nelson III, Todd Terrell and the sound squad, Judy Cole and Cliff Lowe!

That’s April 27 at 3:00 pm at the Farmland Community Center (100 N. Main St, Farmland, Indiana)! Tickets are just one dollar! For more information, please call 765-468-7631.

#tom cherry's old time radio show #photograph #farmland community center #katy wolfe #bob green #larry beck #jeff shull #jeff rapkin #tom cherry #sean orlosky'#judy cole #missy donahue #todd terrell #debby girtman #thomas nelson III #cliff lowe #beth nahre #the mysterious stranger #it pays to be ignorant

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deadpoets · 7 days

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ROBERT SEAN LEONARD Robin William's Interview on Donahue (1989)

#rsledit #rsl #robert sean leonard #people #*mine #*mygifs

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giveamadeuschohisownmovie · 20 days

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Pitch for a Dark Pictures Anthology game:

1) The title

“Siblings”

2) The prologue

In 1963, Dr. Sean West and Dr. Sadie Miller (the red herring protagonists) are members of the illegal CIA program Project MKUltra. They are experimenting on a woman who they believe has some sort of telepathic power.

Things go awry when the woman escapes, resulting in a massacre of the entire staff. West and Miller attempt to escape, but are eventually slaughtered by the unnamed woman.

(The order and manner in which Sean and Sadie can die will be affected by the players’ actions)

3) The main story

In the present day, the focus is on a fashion show in Milan, Italy. Our main characters are patrons of the show, there to enjoy the spectacle. The show is run by an elderly billionaire named Lawrence Donahue, who was apparently a big deal in American politics during the 1970s.

The show suddenly takes a turn for the worst with the arrival of two teenagers; Francis and his sister April. The two teenagers get into a fight and the crowd kicks both of them out, believing them to be unruly protestors of opposing causes.

That’s when it’s revealed that Francis and April are the great-grandchildren of the unnamed woman from the prologue. The woman’s descendants all ended up developing some sort of telepathic/telekinetic power. Francis has the power of mind control, to create mental illusions, and change how people view the world (so he’s like the fear gas from Man of Medan). April has telekinesis (so she’s Carrie or Eleven).

It’s revealed that Lawrence Donahue was a high-ranking member of Project MKUltra. In response to the unnamed woman’s rampage in 1963, Lawrence sent mercenaries to kill her in 1983. Since then, the unnamed woman’s family has tried to avenge her death, but failed every time.

Francis is here to kill Lawrence. April is here to stop Francis, believing that the desire for revenge is tearing the family apart. Unfortunately, our main heroes are caught in the middle of Francis and April’s fight. It’ll be up to the players to survive the showdown, as well as determine which sibling wins.

4) Inspirations

The real life Project MKUltra, obviously

Stranger Things (specifically El vs. Vecna)

Carrie

Kilgrave from Jessica Jones

The Umbrella Academy

Resident Evil (sorta, kinda)

Chronicle

5) Main protagonists

a. Chris “Reaper Rick” Bernstein (RELAXED, CONFIDENT): A mainstream hip hop rapper of Jewish and African-American descent. Despite his wealth, he’s down-to-earth and more focused on giving back to his family. He is played by the special celebrity guest star, Daveed Diggs, who you might recognize as Lafayette/Jefferson from the Broadway musical Hamilton.

b. Alison Parker (ARROGANT, OVERBEARING): A wealthy socialite and influencer from the UK. She blatantly admits that the only reason she’s attending the show was for the clout since this was the biggest fashion show of the year.

c. Cho Woo-Jin (COMPLEX, ABRASIVE): The CEO of a South Korean soju company. He was attending the fashion show to get away from his crumbling family life at home, while also supporting his daughter who is one of the runway models.

d. Cho Eun-bi (ADVENTUROUS, AMBITIOUS): Woo-Jin’s daughter and one of the runway models of the fashion show. She is close to her father, but wants to distance herself from her family by achieving her own wealth as an international model.

e. Hector Morales (BRAVE, TEMPERAMENTAL): One of the staff workers. It’s revealed that he hates the hospitality industry due to how the wealthy treat the staff, which is why he doesn’t get along with the other four protagonists at first. Hector fulfills the role of the protagonist who is different from the other 4 (Fliss, John, Salim, Charlie).

6) Other ways to change the ending: Francis or April?

Aside from keeping your characters alive, you can determine who wins the sibling war. So either Francis or April will be the final boss. The game can end with -

* Francis wins by killing April. He then goes on to kill Lawrence Donahue. However, Francis goes on to keep killing as he’s lost his marbles at this point. This would be one of the bad endings.

* April wins by reluctantly killing Francis, thus stopping the rampage. Donahue’s crimes are exposed and is arrested, thus the family gets their revenge anyways. This would be one of the good endings.

* Francis and April both lose since the players choose to tell both of them to fuck off. This results in Francis and April killing each other, leading to the total destruction of the area. The characters can still survive by escaping to safety. This would be a neutral ending.

In all endings, the survival of the 5 protagonists is a separate factor. You can save all of your protagonists in either scenario.

7) Bonus

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karlachi · 2 years

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some articles i've read recently

This culture of dissecting other people’s looks needs to end - Alex Peters

My Prison Gets So Hot, the Floors Sweat - Demetrius Buckley

The dreams of animals - David M Peña-Guzmán

Rise of the racist robots – how AI is learning all our worst impulses - Stephen Buranyi

On Reading and Translating Queer Literature - Allison Grimaldi Donahue

#FreeBritney and the problem with ‘well-meaning’ fan activism - Sean O'Neill

Covid in an Uneven World: Are We All in This Together - Suparna Bhaskaran, Madhumita Dutta, Sirisha Naidu

Shrinkflation: How manufacturers increase their profits but keep product prices ‘familiar’ - Alex Leeds Matthews

Climate Crisis: Why migrant justice is now more important than ever - Ravishaan Rahel Muthiah

A model’s prosthetic leg has been edited out of a ‘body positive’ campaign - Daniel Rodgers

‘Plant-Based Eating Is Probably One of the Blackest Things I Could Do’ - Cheri Lucas Rowlands

Face masks affect how children understand speech differently from adults – new research - Julia Schwarz

Queerying Translation - BJ Epstein

Climate change: why we can’t rely on regrowing coastal habitats to offset carbon emissions - Phil Williamson, Jean-Pierre Gattuso

Rethinking Prison Tourism - Hope Corrigan

#reading list #resources #articles #ref #reference #im using the translation ones in my masters dissertation hehe

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unlikelyagerestuffs · 1 year

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Regressor Axl Headcannons!!

Axl is such a regressor! I see it! It's like, totally a thing, I ABSOLUTELY swear! Warnings for: Hiding Regression, coming out, vent regression

Under the cut!

It started out with a personal moment between friends. He and his buds escaped to Darrin's house to stay the night. (Which was NOT, by the way, a parental-approved sleepover. They were gonna play video games, and talk about chicks or somethin'.)

But it was just as the clock struck midnight, after a particularly heated Mario Party game and a particularly deep discussion, when Axl just went *off.*

Could he really just not do enough for his family?? He missed the days when they were just proud of him all the time. "I could kick down a bucket and they'd go *'ohh, look! What a strong boy our little Axl is!'* Now it's all, *uuh, pick up your socks, Axl. Do better in school, Axl.'* I wish they'd just get off my FREAKIN' back!"

"...That sucks, dude." Darrin replied sympathetically, if not somewhat unhelpfully.

If it was any other time, and any other place, Axl would have played it off. But this was midnight, and he was with his boys... So, well... He cried. Normal, tough guy tears. Not like how those lameos in the movie do it. Both his friends put a comforting hand on him. It helped.

And they stayed like that for a bit, Sean and Derrin passing worried glances. Until Sean Donahue, wise, educated Mister Donahue (or just Sean, because "Mister Donohue" was his father) decided to speak up. His family was educated on matters of the heart, so he had *an* idea of what to say.

"I think... This is your inner child crying out, Axl. You really have to make sure you heal that part of you. It's an important part of human growth and development."

Ignoring all the nerd, lame, science stuff, maybe his friend had a point.

Regressing doesn't really change Axl. He doesn't really become a different person when he regresses. He doesn't baby talk, he doesn't walk around with a rattle and a pacifier. Honestly, at the start? All he really did was play basketball. It was what he remembered most from his childhood; Games with his dad.

And anything that *does* change when his mindset shifts? Especially near the start, he tries to hide that part of him like crazy. Even the slight mention of anything childish from anyone at all, (mostly Sue) would get a flurry of, "GOD, no! That's so stupid! Get that out of my face, ugh!"

Outside of that, though, he tends to get quieter. And a lot more sensitive. The little things get to him easier, like when his dad assumes something is his fault, or his mom thinks he did something she didn't like on purpose.

A while into his time regressing, he really wanted a coloring book. Just like, one of the cool ones - and not really to *color* in, just one he can mess up and tear apart and whatever.

It became an entire Oceans 11 mission. Darrin had to stalk into a Dollar Tree and pretend to be a teen dad, while Sean went the opposite direction to get a package of crayons for an "art project." Axl stayed watch, dressed in a large black hoodie (although it didn't help that it was so big and comfy and made him feel like a little kid).

Darrin ended up picking out a book filled with racecars, which was lame because Axl wanted one with dinosaurs. The book ended up growing on him though; It would become something of a comfort item, and an integral part of his regression. The car lines were too small to color well in, so he would just scribble all over the pages.

Huge messes ended up being a part of his regression, too! They were fun to make! He'd color, and then rip out the page and throw it, just, somewhere else!

The first person to find out about his hobby was Brick. Which, as a roommate, could be more understanding at times than Axl gave him credit for. Brick said the topic didn't interest him and then walked away. Easy as that.

His mom was (somewhat) understanding, too. "You already act like a child, so what's the big deal?" Sharing that he regressed because he had to fix the inner child that *she* broke, wasn't exactly on Axl's to-do list.

He REALLY downplayed the whole thing with Sue, and STILL she insisted to get on his nerves. She was all namby-pamby and excited that her "little brother" Axl (gross) was an artist! She tried to drag him into childish activities he didn't care about. No, he's *not* going to decorate *anything* with pink, frilly sparkles, thank you, very much.

He tried to keep it from his dad as long as he could. His dad was someone he kinda, maybe, really, *respected*, a little bit.

One night, he and his dad were playing a game of basketball. They were taking turns throwing shots, when, out of nowhere, his dad brought up, "hey, so your mom said you like kid stuff now. What's that all about?" No judgment. Just clarification.

He'd been mentally preparing for this moment. As coolly as possible, "yeah, Sean said it would like, heal my inner child or sumthin', " he tested, spinning the ball in one hand and taking another shot.

"Leave it to the Donahue's to go spreading all their mental health crap," came the neutral, slightly joking response. "What's wrong with your inner child?"

And... Axl explained all the stuff he'd said to his friends, months earlier. That things were different now. That he was nobody's favorite. That he tried, he really did, but none of his effort could overlook the overwhelmingly observed bad.

A long silence passed. Axl had nearly reached tears. And then his dad, in his Mike Heck, study, dependable kind of way, *apologized.* "Yeah, we kinda messed up as parents, didn't we."

It was all Axl needed to hear. "Yeah, ya kinda did."

#agere #sfw agere #age regression #sfw age regression #axl heck agere #the middle agere #agedre #age dreaming #axl heck #the middle

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CALIFICACIÓN PERSONAL: 6 / 10

Título Original: The Burrowers

Año: 2008

Duración: 96 min.

País: Estados Unidos

Dirección: J.T. Petty

Guion: J.T. Petty

Música: Joseph LoDuca

Fotografía: Phil Parmet

Reparto: Doug Hutchison, Clancy Brown, William Mapother, Sean Patrick Thomas, Karl Geary, Jocelin Donahue, Laura Leighton, David Busse, Alexandra Edmo, Brighid Fleming, Christopher Hagen, Galen Hutchison, Harley Coriz, Suzi McLaughlin, Tatanka Means, Seri DeYoung, David Midthunder, Jon Kristian Moore, Cole Resch, R.J. Rice, Bonnie Morgan, Chris Grabher

Productora: Blue Star Pictures. Distribuidora: Lionsgate

Género: Horror; Thriller;Western

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0445939/

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true-autistic-tales · 2 years

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lovesickness, chapter 1 "the chin-up"

"the break up"|"the party"

lovesickness is an au/fanfic made by me and has my experiences of being lithromantic and transgender but mostly lithromantic with some mommy issues as well tbh

warnings for this chapter: transphobia from axl's family and implied s/h :[

also keep in mind that new chapters will release extremely infrequent and that i am a beginner writer, thank you

story under the cut

a bad break up mixed with internal turmoil caused one rough night for axl, so much in fact that he was about to miss the bus for school.

"AXLENA!" frankie screamed throughout the house, calling for him to wake his ass up, although using his incorrect name to do so. "AXLENA, WAKE UP!"

"GOD, FINE!" axl finally responded and climbed out of his bed, annoyed at the fact that even though it's been a year since his outing, his own mother still refuses to use his name. he had gotten slightly used to the fact that his mother would never accept him, and for his father, well, he was barely in his life so axl didn't care for him anymore, especially when he still called axl by his deadname consistently. axl stood up from off the floor and grabbed some dirty clothes that he lazily threw around this room days before. making sure they were long sleeved, he quickly and effortlessly dressed up before he ran out his room to the front door but was interrupted by frankie standing in front of axl's way outside.

"aren't you going to say something?" she said with a cold attitude, knowing what axl was obliged to say since she was his mother.

"i-i love you too, mom." axl hesitated, quietly cringing to himself. he had questioned to himself if he actually loved frankie or he was just obligated because they were blood related, she had never accepted him since he came out over a year ago and it, of course, sadden him greatly. frankie smiled at him, like she actually cared for him, axl awkwardly smiled back at her, hoping that she would change and start loving him again like when he was a child.

"axl, hurry up! we're going to miss the bus, again!" sue called axl, rushing to him with a weirdly heavy bag for junior high. axl felt safe seeing sue again, she was his first family member who used axl's real name, brick slowly following but being "protected" by frankie and mike.

the heck children dashed outside, almost tripping on their feet trying to catch up to the bus, the cold autumn air disagreeing with their wishes. sue made it right before the bus started driving, standing in the open doorway, she yelled out for her brothers but brick was too slow. axl picked up his little brother and placed him on his shoulders and channeled all this strength into running while making sure brick didn't slip and fall. axl grasped the bus doors and jumped in front of his sister, gasping for a bit until the bus driver told them all to sit down. although brick didn't verbally thanked him, axl knew that brick appreciated him, and that made him more happier than what frankie made him feel. the hecks found a place to sit down, sue and brick sat with each other while axl sat by himself, deciding to get lost into some music for a while to past the time.

it felt like a while until the bus made it to axl's school, orson high. axl was the king there but recently, it felt like the popularity was artificial, fake, that no one actually liked him. at least sean and darrin seemed to really enjoy being around him, or was that fake too? axl worried, walking to his locker, stressing about more and more. earlier today walking inside of orson high, he thought he saw morgan multiple times which caused a lot of anxiety. mumbling to himself, axl closed his locker to meet the face of sean who was hiding behind the door of his locker. "AAAHH! GOD, SEAN, YOU BUTTHOLE!" he jumped, heart and mind racing. sean laughed and squeezed axl into an embrace which he winced in, arms being sensitive from what he did to himself last night.

"i wouldn't have taken the ax-man as a chicken!" sean playfully teased axl, letting go of him. axl chuckled embarrassingly, scratching his face, he would usually love sean's mischief but his mind was too hyperfocused on other things to enjoy him or anybody else.

"aw man, did i miss a bro cuddle?" darrin, with a disappointed face, walked next to sean from wherever the hell he once was.

"sorry bro but you did." sean scrunched his face and patted darrin on his shoulder, he shook his head defeatingily. axl smiled at his friends' tomfoolery, he was unbelievably grateful for his friends' acceptance of him, it truly felt like his friends loved him unconditionally.

"dude, are you alright?" darrin noticed axl's appearance, he had bags under his eyes and he was more quiet than usual.

"yeah, yeah, i'm alright." axl answered him, he didn't want his anybody to know what was happening to him mentally. sean looked at axl, frowning, sean knew he was lying for whatever reason. sean opened his mouth to ask axl what was actually happening but the bell rung out just in time to save him. "well, that's the bell. see you in 2nd period." axl walked off, leaving his friends at his locker. they didn't deserve to know axl's problems, it wasn't theirs to actively worry about, axl would hate himself even more if sean and darrin had to constantly stress about axl and his wellbeing.

2nd period, math. one of many of subjects axl sleeps through but considering how well he slept last night. "hey, ax-" sean scooted closer to the sleep deprived teen, making sure not to be been with his phone out in class. "i know what will cheer you up." he handed his phone to him, a message that read: "no parents, more fun!!! party at my place at 10!!! the more the better ;) xoxo" was opened. a party huh? axl grinned at sean, he was in. sean devilishly smiled back at the boy, quickly grabbing his phone from axl.

"a party it will be then."

#lovesickness #the middle #axl heck #sue heck #brick heck #frankie heck #sean donahue #darrin mcgrew #writing #fanfic writer #beginning writer #fanfic #fanfiction

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Watertown Remembers the Chaos, Concern and Celebrations During the Shootout & Search for the Marathon Bomber

**One thing they always seem to conveniently forget though is that Donahue was hit by friendly fire because everybody and their brother (forgive the terrible pun) were shooting every which way with no one in charge. They hit more cars and apartment walls than anything**

It seems like ages ago and at the same time just like yesterday that Watertown was rocked by gunfire and explosions, then went into lockdown as police scoured homes and yards for the Boston Marathon Bomber, before locating and capturing him in a boat parked in Franklin Street.

On April 19, 2023, the 10th anniversary of the Watertown Shootout and Manhunt, Watertown News is sharing the memories of readers of that monumental day in our community.

The area was already on edge. On April 15, two bombs went off at the Boston Marathon finish line and the culprits remained at large.

When the Marathon Bombing occurred, Jade Burke, who grew up in Watertown, was at the South Shore Hospital with a person from a group home for whom she cared.

“We were in the emergency room. We were locked down in the hospital for hours. We weren’t even allowed to step outside. We finally got an all clear to go home later that night. It was an incredibly stressful day,” she said. “The unit we were on had a group from the hospital running the marathon that day. I remember screams, crying, people pacing, watching the news. Trying to get their friends/colleagues on the phone just to know they were safe.”

Burke’s family has lived in a two family home in the East End for nearly 100 years.

“It was always such a quiet, safe place. It’s always been home. I’ve never felt fear in the confines of this town. Not until that day,” Burke recalled.

Late on the afternoon of April 18, the FBI released images of the photo in the media. On the evening of April 18, MIT Police Officer Sean Collier had been shot in his car by the Bombing suspects, later identified as Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. After killing Collier, the Tsarnaevs carjacked a Mercedes SUV in Cambridge, and the driver, Danny Meng, got away when they stopped at a gas station.

Shortly after midnight on April 19, Watertown Police officer Joseph Reynolds located the Mercedes wanted by Cambridge Police in connection with the carjacking.

The car stopped at the intersection of Dexter Avenue and Laurel Street in East Watertown. Tamerlan Tsarnaev got out of the car, and began shooting at Reynolds and Sgt. John MacLellan, who had arrived to assist in the traffic stop. The two officers fired back, along with others who responded to the reports of “shots fired.”

Between 200-300 shots were fired, and the Tsarnaev brothers threw at least one pressure cooker bomb and five homemade grenades, three of which exploded.

Liza Ketchum, who was living on Arthur Terrace, awoke to the sound of sirens and explosions.

“Looking out our bedroom window we saw someone lying down on Adams Street,” Ketchum said. “We heard the shots that resulted in the death of one bomber and serious injuries to one policeman, a few blocks away.”

Elaine Shore was living at 489 Mt Auburn St. at the time, which was close to the action.

“I could hear the cops saying to the (Tsarnaev) brothers ‘get down get down’ and then heard pop pop pop,” Shore said.

Watertown Police Officer Tim Menton recalled he was working a road detail at a National Grid project nearby, and raced over when he heard about the shootout. During the firefight, MBTA Transit Police Officer Dic Donohue was hit in the leg by a bullet and lost lots of blood. Menton’s brother Pat, who is a Watertown Firefighter, was one of the first on the scene, arriving in an ambulance.

Firefighters and police tried to save Donohue. Tim Menton recalls jumping behind the wheel of the ambulance with Donohue inside. He drove to Mount Auburn Hospital while Firefighters Patrick Menton and Jimmy Caruso, along with State Trooper Chris Dumont, were in the back trying to save Donohue. Transit Police Officer Luke Kitto rode along as a passenger. Donohue survived.

Tamerlan had been wounded in the shootout, but his brother Dzhokhar had jumped into a vehicle to flee. As he drove away he ran over Tamerlan, narrowly missing officers who were trying to take him into custody.

With Dzhokhar on the loose, hundreds of officers from around the area arrived. They cordoned off 20 blocks in the East End to begin the search for Tsarnaev.

At the time, Burke lived in Brockton. She suddenly awoke in the early hours of the 19th, her heart racing, and she suddenly had a bad feeling. She turned on the TV to see breaking news that a bomb had gone off in Watertown and she immediately recognized the area.

“It was a few blocks from my family’s home. From my Mother. My daughter,” Burke said. “One suspect was dead, the other had fled. They were canvassing trying to find him. I began to feel sick to my stomach.”

She ran to the phone to call her Mother.

“She had been woken by an explosion of some sort, gun fire. She wasn’t sure what it was. I told her to lock the doors. Turn on the news,” Burke said. “We couldn’t believe what was transpiring just blocks away. The suspect had to be hiding somewhere. We have a large backyard with a shed. I told my Mom not to let the dog out. Stay inside. Keep the phone near you.”

Not everyone knew what was going on, even people living near the action, like Andrew Anderson, who was a couple blocks away on School Street.

“I never heard the gunshots, but the robo calls started soon after — they woke us up, and I couldn’t sleep for the remainder of the day,” Anderson said. “At one point there was about 50 police officers in front of my house with guns drawn, motioning for me to get away from the window. They set up a command post next door to me, but never once came to knock on my door, or check my garage, never searched my house.”

News spread fast Cynthia Wentz was on vacation in Florida on the day of the Marathon Bombing, which she noted was just one tragedy that occurred when she was on vacation. Others include 9/11 and the Virginia Tech Shootings. She had no idea what was going on in her hometown as she sat in her rental condo.

“I can remember how dismaying and disorienting it was to get the robo calls from the WPD in the middle of the night — no details other than a ‘shelter in place’ order,” Wentz said. “More worried phone calls the following day from friends and family near and far to see if we were OK. My husband and I are abutters to the Whitney Woods: I remember anxiously wondering if the bomber chose that location to hide. Seemed like a good idea to me!”

As day broke, Gov. Deval Patrick declared that Watertown, and surrounding communities, were in lockdown and people should shelter in place.

Anne Civetta was also away that weekend, having gone to visit her boyfriend in Syracuse. She had to stay there due to the lockdown.

“My neighbor called in a panic wondering how to pick up her husband from his return flight to Boston. It felt surreal and disconnected not to be able to go home!” Civetta said.

Ketchum and her family were locked in her East End house all day.

“At one point, when State Police were standing in our alley, we realized that no one had checked the small yards behind our houses,” Ketchum said. “Was our bulkhead closed? We didn’t dare go to the basement. We peeked out our door and asked them to check. They found our yards were clear.”

Westside resident Joan Gumbleton remembers the “extreme concern” that everyone had when they learned one of the suspects was somewhere in Watertown.

“I spent quite a bit of time on my front porch in the West End so I could look out to see if I saw anything,” Gumbleton said. “I saw a young guy ride by on a bike when no one else was on the street and I thought that probably wasn’t a wise idea for his family to allow him to do this.”

During lockdown Lily Rayman Read was in the Winter Street apartment in which she lived with her family at the time.

Burke had to wait impatiently as law enforcement scoured the town looking for Tsarnaev.

“You can’t imagine my terror as a parent not being able to get to your child after something like this happens,” she said. “To add to things there is a potentially armed bomber on the loose, who knows what this guy would do if he got into our yard/shed/house. I know everyone felt about the same.”

She called multiple times to check on her mother and daughter.

“They talked about officers that looked like the SWAT team walking up and down the streets with assault rifles. At one point my mother poked her head out to ask one of them about letting the dog out and they yelled at her to “get back inside!” Burke said. “Armored vehicles and police cars rolled up and down the street. Officers in full gear marched through our backyard, clearing it for any signs of life. It was surreal.”

“So it is something I will never forget,” she said.

Late on the afternoon of the 19th, the announcement came that the lockdown had been lifted. Like many people, Anderson got out of the house. Soon after, Franklin Street resident Dave Henneberry saw something awry with his boat, looked inside and found Tsarnaev.

“When the shelter-in-place order was lifted, I went out to get smokes and drove up Walnut Street just as they discovered the boat,” he said. “I was surrounded in seconds by police, I quickly made a U-turn and went the other way. I lost a day’s pay because I wasn’t allowed to leave. I also worked in the Fenway, and was at work on Marathon Monday and heard the bomb, and it was chaos trying to drive home that day, because I had to go towards Copley Sq to get around the marathon route … I’ll certainly never forget it.”

After Tsarnaev was found in the boat, police surrounded the area. Law enforcement fired into the boat and at 8:42 p.m. Tsarnaev was taken into custody.

“Eventually everyone was allowed out after what seemed like forever,” Burke said. ” The final showdown happened and the second bomber was located in the boat. It was a relief. That night I drove to pick up my daughter. I was so happy to see her, that she was safe. I was so happy it was over. It was a week on edge for everyone in the community.”

Gina Consolini shared:

What a terrible day it was for the dear people of Watertown.

My heart went out to everyone there.

It was so scary for everyone concerned.

I prayed so hard they would find the bombers.

Law enforcement along with the residents of Watertown did.

After the capture of the Marathon Bomber, Watertown suddenly appeared on TV sets across the globe. Ketchum heard from family and friends from near and far.

“What amazed us was how far the news traveled. Our close friends in Nairobi, Kenya, who had visited us in the past, recognized the Town Diner on their TV coverage. They called to see if we were OK,” she said. “My brother, in Connecticut, heard the news that the bomber had been found in the boat before we did. He called to find out if we were close (we weren’t). But we threw a bag of clothes together, dashed to our car, and skipped town, as did other neighbors on the alley. For many months afterwards, a car’s backfire could bring it all back.”

Shore was interviewed about her experiences.

“As I speak Hebrew I was also contacted by Israeli radio and did a couple of interviews about the Marathon bombing,” she said.

Gumbleton said she will always be grateful to the police who risked their lives and captured the Marathon Bombers.

“As we all know, there was so much confusion during this whole event and our police acted so bravely and quickly to be out there to protect us,” Gumbleton said. “When there are times when police are blamed for situations, hopefully we’ll all remember this event and similar ones where they put their lives on the line for us in terrifying situations and show them our appreciation.”

Watertown Cable looks back 10 years

On the 10th anniversary of these events, WCA-TV will look back at Watertown Cable’s news coverage and some local ceremonies in recognition of Watertown’s first responders in the months following the 2013 Boston Marathon. You’ll see interviews with Police Chief Ed Deveau and Fire Chief Mario Orangio the week following the shootout, a first responders’ ceremony at Perkins School for the Blind, and much more.

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Spend a part of your Thanksgiving weekend at Tom Cherry’s Old Time Radio Show on November 25, 2023 at the Farmland Community Center at 3:00pm! Avoid the hassle of shopping at big box stores and enjoy a cornucopia of radio fun! Featuring an original radio play by local playwright, Cliff Lowe!

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The Greatest Beer Run Ever (Peter Farrelly, 2022)

Cast: Zac Efron, Russell Crowe, Bill Murray, Kyle Allen, Deanna Russo, Paul Adelstein, Jake Picking, Joe Adler, Archie Renaux, Will Hochman, Kristin Carey, Ruby Ashbourne Serkis. Will Ropp, Matt Cook. Screenplay: Peter Farrelly, Brian Hayes Currie, Pete Jones, based on a book by John “Chick” Donohue and J.T. Molloy. Cinematography: Sean Porter. Production design: Tim Galvin. Film editing: Patrick J. Don Vito. Music: Dave Palmer.

I subscribed to the Apple TV+ streaming service so I could watch CODA (Sian Heder, 2021) and The Tragedy of Macbeth (Joel Coen, 2021), and I stuck with it because I got hooked on the series Severance and For All Mankind. (I haven't yet dipped into its most popular series, Ted Lasso.) And having invested in yet another streaming service, I felt compelled to check out its other movies. Compared to the major streamers, the offerings are fairly thin, so I gave The Greatest Beer Run Ever a try. Unfortunately, the movie is as clunky as its title and surprisingly inept, coming from a filmmaker who won two Oscars for Green Book (2018). Based on an improbable but true story, it's about a civilian who decides to take a duffel bag full of beer to his buddies in Vietnam at the height of the war, spurred by a kind of deluded patriotism and boozy camaraderie. But Zac Efron doesn't have the acting chops or the confident screen presence to carry the central role of Chickie Donahue, and he's not given much help by the screenplay's failures of tone. Is the movie a comedy? An anti-war satire? A story whose subtext is the way American politicians exploit the naïveté of the citizenry? It could have been all of those things, but it just falls flat, with an ending which implies that Chickie has been changed by confrontation with the terrible truth of the Vietnam War but doesn't find an adequate way of demonstrating it. There are some amusing moments, such as the way Chickie gets mistaken for a CIA agent and is able to exploit the misconception. And there are good performances from Russell Crowe as a combat photographer and Bill Murray as a World War II vet who buys into the official line that the war in Vietnam is being won and condemns the media and the protesters for their lack of patriotism. (The pro-war blue-collar milieu from which Chickie comes is treated with sentimentality, such as the woman who wants him to take a rosary to her son, who is MIA.) The real story behind the film is an intriguing one, but it's wasted in the final product.

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