by John Rechy
Even as branded horrors singed her mind, she clung to the sounds she had dredged out of the dead wind. She forced the merest breath of hope, and she thrust it against the memories of this season of heat and blood and fire.
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Epilogue
Killed in the slaughter on the freeways in Los Angeles were: Manuel Gomez, Barbara Ann Leighton (also known as Amber Haze), Alana Freeman Stephens, Michelangelo Valenti (also known as Mick Vale), Debby Weston, William “Billy” Young, and an unidentified teenage male bearing the designation “Stud” tattooed on his upper left arm.
Among the wounded were: David Howard Clinton and Hester Washington.
Among those on the freeway at the time but unhurt were: James Huston, Norris Weston, and an unidentified woman of about fifty, probably a derelict who had wandered on foot into the freeway.
