“CITY HALL UNABLE TO CONTROL

GANGLAND WAR”!

            The headlines spared nothing.

            Someone at the scene had allowed, or had not noticed, the pres/… Read full post »

Kahuna, Sinead and the other two officers searched the rest of the third and fourth floors. They found no one. No gang members, no wild Indians wielding tomahawks the building was clear of all the bad guys.

Raul and Mando had already made their retreat through a back door the… Read full post »

 THE WORRY DOLLS, CHAPTER 21 Race against death.

The paramedics had Rosalinda hooked up to a Life-Support™ by the time the driver flipped on the ambulance lights and siren. Life-Support™ sent a constant stream of the patient’s vital signs to the hospital Emergency Room. So by t… Read full post »

The dark urban landscape was fragmented by moonlight flashing through the fast-moving rainclouds, as Kahuna and Sinead surveyed ahead, searching for the protected areas as well as the unsafe areas. In Hollywood movies, it took only a thin aluminum trash can to deflect a 38 caliber bullet; but here in… Read full post »

           Plastic Bob had been on the move for three hours, fatigue gnawing at his old injuries.  The next building was where he planned on resting or maybe, if lucky, get some sleep.  He told himself to unwind, determined to leave his hass/… Read full post »

           Mando held back, hesitant, uncertain what had happened.  The four gang members had entered the supposedly deserted warehouse close behind Carlos, that woman, and the little girl.  The pursued made no attempt at being quiet while a/… Read full post »

            Las Chupacabras gang had stolen their name from a mythical Latin American demon.  In Spanish chupar means to suck and cabra is a goat.  The Chupacabra was said to kill, and then suck the blood of goats or any other small to/… Read full post »

            Kristen turned to the young woman who was the nearest paramedic.  “I have to go with her.  Let me go with her!”

            Emergency Medical Technician Jana/… Read full post »

            Kahuna snapped from his reverie with a blanket over his shoulders, looking out the rain-spattered picture window, up at the rainbow around the moon.

            He knew now that h/… Read full post »

            Officer Sinead unclenched a little, but stood with a wary eye on all the darkness.

            A big, black Tactical Medic approached her.  She knew him.  All the cops k/… Read full post »

            Kristen and Kahuna had stumbled out onto the moonlit beach.  Their hands found each other and the two of them glided together over the warm sand, breathing together, both knowing what the other felt.

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            The police tactical ambulance wailed up beside them and the paramedics burst out like bees, swarming over the little girl and Kristen.

            Sinead thought, involuntarily, &/… Read full post »

            Kristen!  Khahuna had been dreaming about Kristen!

            He knew that Kristen, tired of being a widow to someone who was not dead, wanted more from him.  She wante/… Read full post »

            Officer Sinead O'Bierne and her rookie partner Canh Nguyen had been on duty in the  neighborhood for two hours when they got the report of “shots fired”.  Now, as they approached the blue Volkswagen stopped in th/… Read full post »

            Kahuna had been off sick from duty for the last five days.  This had been the first sick-leave that he had taken during his 14 years on the Los Angeles police force.  He had finally gone to the department's doctor when the i/… Read full post »

            El Diablo Rojo, the red devil.  “Oh, my God – the red light!” jolted Kristen's attention back into the front seat of her car still waiting for the light to change.

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            Little Rosalinda screamed and fled from the man with long hair, beard, and dark glasses.  She was illuminated by a weak yellow streetlight, blinded with tears and terror, clutching her little yellow box.

    &… Read full post »

            At the deserted intersection Kristen remained motionless in her Volkswagen Coupe and in her cocoon of reverie.

            She recalled that Kahuna had shouted “Highway libr… Read full post »

            “Run, Rosalinda, run!” rang the voice in Rosalinda’s mind

            Rosalinda obediently wobbled to her feet again, sobbing.  Tears, bloody snot and saliv/… Read full post »

            The rainclouds broke open.  A rainbow surrounded the full moon like the iris of a celestial eye.  It looked down coldly upon the embers that were El Pueblo de Los Angeles.  The blue Volkswagen Coupe stayed at the desert/… Read full post »

            Void and without form, the darkness was upon the face of Sister Juanita.  But then there came light into the eyes of little Rosalinda.

            Rosalinda's head throbbed/… Read full post »

            A blue Volkswagen Coupe, bejeweled with sapphire raindrops, hissed to a stop at the red-light of a deserted intersection.  Muffled music pumped inside the VW.  The woman driver reached with an impatient reflex and adjusted t/… Read full post »

     The man, the woman, and the young girl fled up the dark stairwell in the abandoned warehouse, clutching each others hands.  At the top of the stairs, the man slung the woman and the girl past himself into the dim hallway.  He turned and knelt with his automatic rifl… Read full post »