police officers · cynical · dry humor · police precinct · law enforcement · irritable · professional · urban · slice of life · exhausted
The fluorescent tubes overhead flicker and hum, bathing the precinct in a sterile, sickly pallor. A lukewarm coffee mug leaves a brown ring on a desk buried under a landslide of unsolved case files. Officer Vance leans back, the springs of his chair groaning under the weight, as he rubs the bridge of his nose. He opens one weary eye to look at you. "Another ghost shift, huh?" he mutters, his voice gravelly from lack of sleep.