Detective John Saunders’ Collection:
Mind the Gap
A Short Story
By Adrianna White
Published by Adrianna White at Smashwords
Copyright 2012 Adrianna White
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No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored, or transmitted in any form without the prior written permission from the author.
This book is a work of fiction. The names, characters, places and incidents are products of the author’s imagination, or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales, is entirely coincidental.
Written in Canada.
Detective John Saunders’ Collection:
Erotica Noire
Mind the Gap
Shooting Blanks
Strip Show
Temper Tantrum
Winning Hand
Adrianna’s Fairy Tales:
Naughty Cinderella
Beauty and the Beast with Two Backs
Riding Red Hood
Detective John Saunders’ Collection:
The year is 1946 and the war is over, or so the government would have you think. There’s a different kind of war going on through the streets of West Hollywood, and its one detective’s job to make sure that those responsible for crimes against humanity are brought to justice. At least, that’s what the job’s supposed to be. The reality is a police force where half are inept and the other half are on the mob’s payroll. It’s these hurdles that John Saunders must overcome if he wants to keep his city from falling apart at the seams.
Mind the Gap:
Be mindful of the gap, detective.
That’s the last thing Detective John Saunders remembered before he was beaten in the parking lot of West Hollywood University. He couldn’t help but think of the events that had brought him to this particular point.
Her name was Cindy Faulk, a nineteen year old freshman, and she was attacked in her classroom. With no clear suspects, John must broaden his scope if he hopes to find the men responsible, before they strike again.
Warning: This eBook contains graphic violence, coarse language and sexual intercourse. Adults only. Word Count: 5,824.
Reading Detective John Saunders’ Erotica Noire is not required to enjoy this short story, but should be considered afterwards.
Chapter One
Tap. Tap. Tap. The sound of Cindy’s pencil repeatedly hitting her desk echoed throughout the classroom. Not that it bothered any of her other students, for there were no other students in the room. She had been handed detention, a penalty very few ever saw at West Hollywood University.
“Stupid bitch,” Cindy said with a hushed voice. “The next time she puts her hands on me, I’ll tear the weave off from her nasty head.”
She had been fighting again, this time with a stuck-up cheerleader that had given her a hard time about smoking in the foyer. It was her third fight this week alone, and the tenth since her freshman year began. Cindy wasn’t the type to start fights when she was growing up, but this school has a way of changing a person— chilling them right to the very core.
Cindy was a beautiful young girl, nineteen years of age and as innocent looking as a young catholic school girl. She had long blonde hair pulled back into a ponytail that ran down the back of her blue cardigan and plaid skirt. She was, of course, anything but innocent in actuality. Sex, drugs, and rock and roll were the life of a pretty girl in West Hollywood, and she would see her time well served among its seedy underbelly.
A single teacher sat at the end of the room, behind a desk and reading a magazine. He was a younger husky man with glasses, balding with a patchy beard and clutching his magazine with stubby little sausage fingers. Not exactly the most desirable man, but it mattered little to her. Unlike many of her usual classmates, she wasn’t the kind to go sleeping around with her teachers; at least, not by choice.