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A rough-edged collection of L.A. taxi tales, stories, and prose pieces drawn from Southern California street life. Angry, funny, and lonely by turns, it turns cab work into a vivid portrait of people just trying to get through the night.

Chance “Cash” Register is broke, unemployed, and biking across Tucson in brutal heat looking for work. What follows is a raw, darkly funny portrait of job hunting, dead-end labor, and one struggling writer's fight to stay afloat.

This collection of stories, poems, and screams digs into the hard side of urban life. Alex turns work, loneliness, anger, and street survival into sharp L.A. snapshots that feel bruised, immediate, and personal.

Cecil Omar Biggs looks like a harmless preacher in a quiet Southern California neighborhood. By night he becomes a sadistic predator, using his church front and basement lair to lure, torture, and kill.

Another troubled woman crosses Choo-Choo Buschitski's path, and he knows better than to get involved. He does it anyway, with the usual lousy odds and likely regret.

Low-rent L.A. gumshoe Felix “Choo-Choo” Buschitski is given one photo and one task, find a missing sister. The case sends him through grimy streets, bad company, and another day of trouble he did not need.

A brief, hard hit of urban crime set in Los Angeles after dark. It hints at sudden violence, bad luck, and the kind of stranger you do not want to meet on the wrong street.

A new client looks like exactly the kind of trouble Choo-Choo Buschitski should avoid. Instead, he gets pulled into another grubby Los Angeles case full of bad judgment, temptation, and street-level mess.

Choo-Choo Buschitski has made an enemy of the wrong former client. Now a hot-tempered woman is out for payback, and the detective has to stay one step ahead of trouble he helped create.

A hard-edged woman brings fresh chaos to Choo-Choo Buschitski's desk in another short noir misadventure. It is fast, dirty, and full of the low-rent grief this detective never seems able to dodge.

A furious war veteran comes home looking for paid work and finds more trouble waiting in Los Angeles. Short and sharp, it turns job hunting, rage, and street danger into a quick noir punch.

This wild story collection mixes L.A. cab tales, dark humor, and raunchy noir. Its title piece follows an ex-con in East Hollywood whose strange offer from a stranger pulls his ugly past right back to the surface.

PTSD-haunted war vet Ray Zook takes a night job at a Tucson funeral home and walks into a world of grave robbing, coffin swapping, and missing bodies. To get out sane, he will have to face both the crooks and his own demons.

Biggs is still hunting, cruising for victims in the van he calls the Meat Wagon. But the stench of death, suspicious neighbors, and the families of the missing are closing in on his house of horrors.

Fifteen years after taking the fall for a botched murder, Fred Reed gets out of jail with revenge on his mind. The detective who jailed him, and the two women tied to his downfall, are now the hunted.

Fred Reed comes to California looking for a fresh start and falls hard for a married woman. When her violent husband also happens to be Fred's boss, lust, greed, and a murder plot begin to boil over.

Doc Holiday arrives in Tucson expecting a reunion with an old friend and finds blood on the door and a corpse in the tub. His hunt for answers draws him toward more killings, older secrets, and danger across the border.

With the valuable dog Titus still missing, Doc Holiday finds the body of a famous Hollywood animal trainer and a case that keeps getting worse. Behind the murders lurks a sabotage plot aimed at a major film production.

Doc Holiday is hired to find a movie producer's missing dog, but reaches the estate in time to find a hideously mangled body instead. The search leads him deep into Hollywood ambition, obsession, and murder.

L.A. private investigator Edgar “Doc” Holiday is pulled into the disappearance of his ex-fiancée, Candy Leigh Parker. The case quickly turns personal, then deadly, as murders pile up and nobody around him seems worth trusting.

Cash leaves factory labor for a shipping-clerk job that sounds easier and turns out to be its own madhouse. Surrounded by warped coworkers and needing money fast, he has to endure the job without losing his mind.

Chance “Cash” Register grinds through low-paying work and daily indignities in Tucson, trying to keep food on the table and his dignity intact. This is working-class fiction stripped down to survival, stress, and stubborn endurance.