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Roadside --
Part 6
by Cynthia Piromalli
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Their abductor was close to the two women now, a hoe raised over his head ready to strike.
He drove it down towards Kathy and she jumped back, tripping and falling over the exhausted Michelle. She sat up just in time to drag Michelle further away from the cellar door and the madman as he swung again, narrowly missing them, the hoe hitting the ground with a heavy thud. She kept pulling Michelle, who landed on top of her with a groan. Heaving the near dead body off her and to the side, Kathy pulled out her gun, aimed blindly and pulled the trigger.
Nothing.
He had stopped dead in his tracks with a look of dread on his face. Then he started laughing, remembering something that she never even knew.
"No bullets." He threw his head back and laughed as she threw the gun away and pushed herself off the ground. He saw her coming for him at the last second and raised his weapon to strike once more when he felt her foot strike his chest. The hoe went back over his head and fell down the stairs behind him as she kicked him again and again.
He tried to grab onto her, arms flailing wildly reaching for her leg, until he finally toppled over backwards, falling down the stairs, coming to a stop as he was impaled by his own fallen weapon. He gasped and coughed as bloody and life oozed out beneath him
She jumped back, closed the door and locked it. Kathy fell at last, panting and sobbing onto the ground.
"Police advise motorists not to pay on the spot cash fines on our city's roads due to hoaxes performed recently. Chief Inspector Hedlam reminded viewers on last night's Channel Five late news bulletin that the NSW Police have not issued such immediately payable fines for five years, and that any suspicious behaviour by persons - either uniformed or in plain clothes - issuing such fines and demanding on the spot payment should be reported to your nearest police station as soon as possible."
The newspaper article was brief and made no mention of the two women who could have died, or the man who had.
Detective Kathy Raye threw the paper into a bin and continued walking, hands in her pockets and her eyes pensive.
'A little late.' She thought to herself. A little late to stop some carnage, or top stop someone from dying, even if it might not be someone who deserved to live. But at least people could read it and be aware.
If they remembered and heeded the advice, well, that would be another story.
© Cynthia M. Piromalli 2002
©2002 StoriesByEmail.com
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