LA 2035 Paper Vengeance
A short story in the universe of Los Angels 2035 written by Ghislan Morel
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eko was sweating. The guy was definitely mad. Oh my god, did she think, and it’s my entire fault. Jay was one of their best writers until now. But his production was a bit slow lately. She pressured him to finish. She was eager to release the book in June, just before summer, because it’s the best time in the year for this kind of novel: it will be another summer hit, the perfect holydays book.
plastic. The light served as a beacon for everyone in the street. Mundane walkers watch in their direction, trying to get the best sit for the show.
“Listen to me! You like my books... Everybody like my books! You can have it in an hour, ‘cause this fucking bitch will released it right now or her brain cells will be spread all She was regretting all these calls, asking over the street” him all the time if the work was done. She even came at all his recent signing, to check He gave a cell visiophone to her. “Phone to if everything was okay, and to persuade the publisher and fax him the manuscript, I him to give the final manuscript by the end want the book on this table in one hour, or you’re dead !” of May. It was the 29th, the heat was really high this year, and the air conditioner was not functioning because of the electricity depravation, caused by the accident at one of the power plant. The office was a living hell. Gosh, she regretted to send away the seller who tried to sell her some roof solar panel a few days ago. But ecology stills a too expensive way to produce electricity. But she began to think that her life has no cost, and that the heat seems to make Jay even more nervous. The toxic cloud covering the area created the worst green house effect of all time, and they were in the middle of this inferno.
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ucy and Wayne was patrolling Greyish. It was an awful day. The heat seems to make everybody gone wild and crazy. The fire patrol reported an incredible number of act of vandalism on emergency water access, and much more arson and accidental fire than usual. The two mutants just finished the evacuation of a park where a bush fire started, and they was running after the kids to make them leave the place. With the heat, the fire was propagating very quickly and they inhaled a lot of smoke. Lucy was coughing since thirty minutes when they saw the mob.
“Calm down, Jay, you have the book, we “ Time to work, freaky girl!” shall release it in time now”, said Neko. Lucy hated to be called this way, and she “Nooo, screamed Jay, I want it published in was planning to take vengeance on that. the hour! Now you will feel how is it to get But when she heard the screams of the lupushed to the limit!” natic on the fifth floor, she knew that something more important was on the way. He take her and put the end of his Jackhammer 9mm just over her left ear, using At the fifth floor of an office building, a his right arm to maintain her and cross the man was gripping a woman and pointing a office to the windows at the north side of gun o her head. the room. He spread some kind of liquid on the Plexiglas windows and ignited it. The “One hour! You have one hour or you’re heat increased again, as the burning chemi- bloody dead!” The girl in his arms was crycal was creating a man-sized hole in the ing, and tried to talk on a vidphone
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The smile on her face seems to be even “What the hell is going on?” said Wayne, charmer when she close the door. All her movements were slow and concentrate. mostly for himself. When the door was finally close, she just “That’s Jay Camozo, answered a young turned to him, and showed the book in her man with long hair on his right. Without hand. having a look at the policeman, without detaching his eyes from the lunatic author. “We got your book published, she said, do He want his book to be published and dis- you want to have a look”. tributed in the hour or he’ll shoot his publisher” The young man finally turned to him All the pressure was going out of the body of Jay Camozo, he brutally feel free of all with a smile “cool, isn’t it?”. the anger, and it was because of this girl. He God, thank Wayne, and they refer to trusted her. He never saw her before, but he themselves as “Norms”. Lucy made her way trusted her with her life. He freed his hostage. Neko just felt on the floor, having a into the people to get to him. nervous breakdown, but not enough water “Wayne, we must call an expert. I’m think in her body to still crying. Emily is in charge today. Just try to calm him, I will try to get her as soon as possible”. That was the moment the electricity came back. That was the moment the air condiAnd Lucy started crawling out of the tioning came back online. crowd, yelling in her microphone and to the A lovely breeze of fresh air crossed the ofpeople surrounding her as well. fice, and the air conditioning device started wenty minutes later, one of the fast breathing out more and more fresh air, trypatrol cars from the C.O.P.S, escorted ing to compensate the accumulated heat of by two vans of the police stopped in this burning day and the one from the meltfront of the building. Two columns of agent ing window. The draught was huge when he in uniform made a passageway in the picked up the book in Emily’s hand. She was crowd for the very attractive young and loosing her smile, and she could feel the anfine woman who gets out of the patrol car. ger rising back in the author. She seemed to be no more than twenty years old. She’s got really long blond hair, Bloody draught, Emily thought, I’m loosing incredible blue eyes and she was dress like my grip on him. an old fashion style hippie. Her purple dress with no sleeve looked like an aura around “You’re a freaky pig, girl! You’re from the her, she’s got flowers in her hairs and a book COPS ! What did you do to me? What did in one hand. No one will ever believe she you do with my mind?”. Jay was screaming was the cream of the negotiator in the and his finger began to pull the trigger. C.O.P.S. That was the moment Wayne chooses to She joined Wayne at the front step, and break the door. they entered the building. Lucy was designed to supervise the operation, and she “Take cover!” screamed Wayne when personally picked the spot for the elite jumping in the room. Emily just got the time shooters. She was concerned about her col- to jump out of his red line. Wayne ‘s Magleague: Emily was the best, but Wayne can num Typhoon fired at FastBlood™ rate and three lethal bullets hit the heart of Jay be so stupid and impulsive sometime. Camozo in less than a second. He felt on his mily just knocked on the door and back, with a grim of deception on his face. pushed it slowly. Jay crossed as fast as possible the two rooms of the small Neko just run out of the room and brought office with his hostage and take position in back the manuscript. She didn’t have a sinfront of the lovable young women. Her skin gle thought for the dead body lying on the was wet, but that was the result of the heat, blood painted floor. because she didn’t seem even a little afraid. “A posthumous novel! And right before “Close the door, for fuck sake, close the summer! We perhaps kill the chicken with damned door!” he shouted at her, his Jack- golden eggs, but that will worth it!” hammer in her direction. Emily ran out of the room. She felt sick.
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he coroner team was evacuating the body. Lucy, Emily and Wayne were outside, talking about a soda from the closest Bunny-Burger. “That’s the first time that happen to me. Everything was so perfect. I was sweating real well because of the heat. The pheromones level was so high, I never concluded a negotiation so quickly”, Emily said. “And what happens?”, asked Lucy. “The Air conditioning! It worked so efficiently because of the heat, it created a Draught that ejected all my control pheromones out of the room. And he recovered so quickly! Thank you Wayne, I was against having you so close, but that really helped” “Well, say Wayne, the only thing I regret will be his books: damn, this guy’s writings was good! And I shot him dead. I’m such an ass”. The End
Dedicated to all the initiated of the Seven Circle And to my blond angel, she will know….
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