Category: Safe for Work

It is common knowledge around the Bay City Police Department that Sergeant Detective Ken Hutchinson isn’t a big fan of Christmas. He starts grumbling about commercialism and hollow sentimentalism the moment the first tinsel garland is strung. What everyone doesn’t know however, with the exception of his partner, David Starsky, is why December doesn’t bring on a rush of good cheer for tall, blond detective.

Holidays in Hutch’s childhood home, even with all of its expensive trappings, had been as cold as the Minnesota winter. Years later, his wife, Vanessa, had chosen Christmas Eve to be the night she left. Hutch hasn’t put up a Christmas tree since.

So when Hutch volunteers to take Officer Ambrose’s Christmas Eve shift staking out a house in the valley where there was suspected child trafficking activity, the new father isn’t particularly surprised. Only supremely grateful.

“Enjoy your first holiday with your new son,” Hutch told him with a pat on the shoulder.

“I will!” Ambrose had exclaimed before adding an awkward, “Merry Christmas!” Continue reading “December 23rd- Christmas Present by Spencer”

A bit of fluff during the summer between Seasons 3 and 4.

“Starsky! Hutchinson! My office!… Now!”

Hutch sent me a long suffering look, pushed his chair back, and got up. As he walked behind me, he put a hand on my shoulder. “Be nice,” he whispered.

I followed him into the office usually occupied by our captain, Harold Dobey, and closed the door behind me. Instead of Dobey, however, the desk chair was occupied by Captain Levi Stillman, a strict disciplinarian whose appearance was definitely not ‘old school.’ He was in his early sixties and had been called out of semi-retirement when Dobey had had a mild heart attack a few weeks before. Dobey was due back any day but Good Ol’ Levi was bound and determined to exert every ounce of control he had over us miscreants, as he liked to call Hutch and me. Continue reading “December 22nd- Catch Phrase by DPPatricks”