next to him. Terrell screamed then. A beautiful, high scream, as much like a bird as a woman, in so much pain it hurt my heart to hear it. She put her fists over her eyes.
“Here!” I screamed again at the guy. “Here!”
I ran toward him, but he was spinning his car in the dirt, doing a 360, heading for Terrell. She got up. She was no fool, and she started to run. She zig-zagged back and forth so the car couldn’t follow her. Made me so proud the way she ran and tried to save herself. She ran like the wind, like a nymph, like an angel. I was coming straight toward the car. I held the case in front of me. He was coming for both of us.
“Stop!” I screamed at him. “Stop!”
I flung the case at the car, but the catch opened in the
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
MICHAEL CONNELLY is the author of seventeen novels, many of which feature LAPD Detective Harry Bosch. He lived in Los Angeles near Mulholland Drive for fourteen years and now splits his time between California and Florida, where he grew up.
ROBERT FERRIGNO is the author of nine thrillers. His most recent book,
JANET FITCH is the author of the novels
DENISE HAMILTON’S crime novels have been shortlisted for the Edgar Allen Poe and the Willa Cather awards. A native Angeleno, she is a former reporter for the
NAOMI HIRAHARA is the author of the Mas Arai mystery series, featuring a Japanese American gardener and atomic bomb survivor living in Altadena, California. A former editor of
EMORY HOLMES II is a Los Angeles-based writer. His stories have appeared in the
PATT MORRISON is a veteran
JIM PASCOE made a name for himself in the noir/crime fiction community as the copublisher of the critically acclaimed indie press UglyTown, which brought out his first two books,
GARY PHILLIPS writes about crime, giant three-armed robots, babes with Ph.D.’s in tights, and other such subject matter. He is finishing up a novel set during World War II, coediting the
SCOTT PHILLIPS was born in Wichita, Kansas, and spent many years in Paris before heading to Southern California. After moving, over a twelve- or thirteen-year period, from Studio City to Ventura to Woodland Hills to Koreatown to Pacific Palisades, he eventually gave up and relocated, tail between his legs, to St. Louis, Missouri.
NEAL POLLACK’S memoir,
CHRISTOPHER RICE is the
BRIAN ASCALON ROLEY, a Los Angeles native, is the author of the novel