An Early Holiday Gift
From Author Richard Nurse
The Creator of the "Jasper, Street-Fighter, and Me" Series
An Excerpt from the upcoming Episode 5 of the series
You Can't Kill Her...
Just Make her go Away
Note: For those that may be new to the series, Jasper, and Street-Fighter have their own voice in the series now. It is all done through Mental Telepathy, between Jasper, Street-Fighter, Maggie, and Jim. All mental communications or conversation is presented in italics. Speech, as normal, will have quotation marks, while general, though, or mind reading will be in italics with no quotation marks.
I would love to receive comment regarding this relatively new aspect of the series, which actually began in episode 4 "M is of Malice" (Revised Edition)
A SAMPLE FROM THE MIDDLE OF CHAPTER 13
The series is in the first person, from Maggie's point of view.
I moved about two feet closer to the end of the log, and then lay prone, where I could see a small portion of the trail, along with the tree in the tall grass and the limb over the trail. I let my mind go silent as I thought; “Jasper why the alert?”
"Two men, almost to tree, armed, two small, one long."
“Is your partner with you?
“Other side net, we trick.”
I saw the first sight of legs from my position. The foot stepped up extra high and then suddenly it was gone, followed by the sound of two startled men, followed by, “You fucking asshole you tripped the net.” Come out of both men. Before I could even tell Jim to come up, I heard him, “Well done boys. Maggie, lower them down to just above the ground, they look nice and secure in there. Now gentlemen, before I let Jasper take a bite out of your ass, slip those handguns through the net, followed by the long gun”…”Jasper, watch hand, if finger goes for the trigger, stop it.”
Jim adjusted his position and then directed which one was to put their gun out through the net first, letting Jasper cover that one, while Jim covered the other one. Once they were both disarmed, I lowered them down until they were about a foot off the ground. I then watched as Becca quickly picked up a Glock, and kicked the other one and the long gun away, and the moved back by Jim.
It would be completely natural for Karlini to help us, and pick up the weapons. I didn’t give a second thought, until, she slipped behind Jim and put the Glock against his back. “Now Maggie, if you want to keep Jim alive, you will lower the net the rest of the way so that it will open, and then step this way”… “Jasper, if you move so much as an inch towards me again, I will kill Jim.”
I looked at Jim with a feeling of helpless on my face and was surprised to see him looking quite calm. I hadn’t heard a sound from Street-Fighter since he had said, “We Trick.” In fact, I didn’t even know where he was. The same thought must have entered Becca’s mind for she said, “Where is that damn cat at Maggie?”
Before I could answer that I didn’t know, I saw a flash of tan, go by from overhead, and heard Street-Fighter say, “In your face lady.”, As I watched him smash into her face. The force of the impact knocked her over backward, and away from Jim. Before I could even move, Jasper was at Street-Fighter’s side and holding the hand with the Glock in it.
