Joe Patterson
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Hi I'm Joe Patterson. I am a writer at heart who is a big geek for film, music, and literature, which have all inspired me to be a writer. I rap, write stories both short and long, and I'm also aspiring to be an author and a filmmaker.
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Child of the City
Hi! I’m a 10 year old boy and today I have the day off from school. I have a doctors appointment for a routine check up scheduled for today Tuesday, September 11th 2001 at 12:00 p.m. Normally I don’t like my check ups because they’re so boring, but at least I get to miss school for a day and go with my mom to work for the morning. We live in Staten Island, New York, but my mom works in lower Manhattan just a few blocks away from the twin towers of the World Trade Center. My dad also works in lower Manhattan where my mom works, but he’s off work today because he’s sick, so he’s at home in the bed. I have an older brother and two older sisters, they were jealous because I was a lucky fool who didn’t have to go to school today because of my check up.
By Joe Patterson3 years ago in Fiction
Fight of the Phoenix
Good morning everyone. It’s 7:15 a.m. in Newark, New Jersey and the date is September 11th, 2001. I’m on my way to Newark Airport so I can catch my flight to the Bay Area of sunny California. I love the west coast. I wish I was going for vacation, but this time it’s for business. I’m pretty sure I’ll be able to take my wife and kids out there sometime in the next year, we’ve all been planning on it for a long time. So I arrive the airport and not surprisingly it’s just as busy as it’s always been, but it doesn’t take long for me to get my tickets and get to my terminal. Looks like I’m first in flight on United Airlines flight 93, nonstop from Newark to San Francisco.
By Joe Patterson3 years ago in Fiction
Battlefield Washington . Content Warning.
Good morning. It is 8:55 a.m. on September 11th 2001 and I am getting ready to make my way to my office inside of the Pentagon in Washington D.C. I’ve been a Petty Officer here at the Pentagon for sometime now and I love my work in the military right here at our nation’s capital. I love my homeland and everyone in it and I love knowing that I’m doing my part in not only defending my country but other nations around the globe as well. As I walk inside I’m greeted by my fellow military personnel and they are just ready for the day as I am.
By Joe Patterson3 years ago in Fiction
Outstretched Arms. Content Warning.
It’s 8:00 a.m. on Tuesday September 11th 2001. and boy do I feel good. I’m on the train headed to lower Manhattan where I work as a broker in the north tower of the World Trade Center. I love what I do and I love the people I work with. So I’m just now getting off the train with a cup of coffee and a bagel in hand. I guess you could say this is my battle gear. It gives me the energy I need to do what it is I do and now I’m headed for the towers. I’m at the plaza area of the towers and even though I walk through here everyday to get to my building the beauty of this area never gets old. I feel so lucky to work at the deluxe office in the sky. After entering the building I make my way through the war zone we commonly call the ground lobby and get inside the packed elevator.
By Joe Patterson3 years ago in Fiction
Tuesday Away. Content Warning.
Good morning. It’s 6:35 a.m. on Tuesday, September 11th 2001. You’re probably wondering who I am. Well, I’m a fireman for the FDNY in New York City. Though I work in New York I actually live in New Jersey with my wife and three children. It’s time for me to get up for the day so I can go guard my city, but I gotta do it quietly so I don’t wake up my family, they can be kinda grouchy in the mornings. As I get a shower and get dressed I look out of my bathroom window and I can’t get over how clear that sunny blue East Coast sky looks this morning. I can tell it’s gonna be a peaceful day.
By Joe Patterson3 years ago in Fiction
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3: An amazing conclusion to Galactic Greatness
This year saw the release Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3, the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s third and concluding chapter to its Guardians of the Galaxy series and I have to say, Marvel honestly couldn’t have given a better and more heartfelt send off to their colorful heroes of space that everyone loves.
By Joe Patterson3 years ago in Critique
Ally Way
I was probably six years old the first time I ever saw an autistic child. It was when I was in the first grade and I was walking with my class to lunch and we walked past a boy who was wearing a white t-shirt, holding his shoes in his hand, with a lot of drool dripping down his mouth and he was moaning and groaning. When he first caught my eyes I just laughed at him pretty hard. A couple classmates of mine also laughed too because we didn’t understand his conditioning. My first grade teacher softly shut down our laughter by simply saying “He’s a special boy just like the rest of you”. Over time in my life I would end up seeing a lot of individuals like that young boy I first saw back in first grade. What I never imagined is that one of them would end up being near and dear to my heart and would give life to a special kind of love in me that I had previously never known, a love that would change me.
By Joe Patterson3 years ago in Confessions
Books that changed Me: It
So back in my toddler days I was over my dad’s house for the weekend and this movie came on tv about this evil clown who was torturing a group of little kids with his mind games and wicked ways. My dad explained the movie to me because he had obviously seen it before and liked it and now so did I. The name of that movie was called It and it is one of many chilling, yet amazing stories from sci-fi and horror master Stephen King. It is also an important book in my life that had a lasting impact that changed me.
By Joe Patterson3 years ago in BookClub
Biscuits and Blood: the first story I ever wrote
After earning my associates degree at Guilford Technical Community College in 2019 I transferred to the University of North Carolina in Greensboro in 2020 where I majored in media studies. One of the first classes I took in my first semester was screenwriting. We only had one assignment for the whole semester and that was to write a 30 minute long screenplay. Every week we would work on part of our scripts and then go over what needed to modified to make the script a suitable end product.
By Joe Patterson3 years ago in Writers
Books that changed Me: Aaliyah: More than a Woman
When I first started middle school back in 2004 my language arts teacher would keep this reading pages chart for how many books and pages all of her students read. As much as I was annoyed by reading because my mom made me do it all the time I actually took part in her chart record a lot being that she would give out prizes based on the reads, plus it was kind of fun to see who could put in the most reading. One day in the school library I found a book I had heard of but forgot about called “Aaliyah: More than a Woman” by Christopher John Farley. Since I was always a lifelong Aaliyah fan and was very interested in getting my reads up for class I picked this book out and I have to say, it really blew me away.
By Joe Patterson3 years ago in Journal
