Jaye Marie and Anita Dawes

A Strong Right Arm – written in response to Diana Wallace Peach’s Myths of the Mirror#writingprompt for May 2019.

When Jackson de Ville came to, he was seated and Electra was straddling him. The knife was in his clenched fist and there seemed to be some mental compulsion preventing him from letting it go. She moved forward, so that the blade began to impale her soft flesh…

For a second he had to fight to remember how he got there…

Jackson’s bodyguard work on the inner planet Folis 12 was supposed to be the climax of his distinguished career as a cop. ‘Cop’ was an old word now, but it had stuck. The Enforcement, for which Jackson worked – had been on Electra’s tail for an age… now the undercover detective and his sidekick, Brocco, were closing in for the kill.

The woman giving…