MARTIAN GOV'T DECLARES WAR ON CRIME SYNDICATES
ALVA CITY, Mars: Alva City's Mayor, Klein Weatherall has extended a helping hand to Tharsis towards reshaping its legal and justice system after crushing the insurgence of crime syndicates on Mars.
Currently campaigning for the Martian Presidential elections, Weatherall's declaration comes in response to the sudden decimation of a dominating criminal syndicate in Tharsis, the Red Dragons.
"Crime syndicates flourish because the justice and legal system is corrupt. To ensure the safety of the ordinary Martian citizen, true justice must prevail and crime must be extinguished in all levels of society." Weatherall stated after meeting with current Martian President, David Armstrong.
Since the decimation of Red Dragons' headquarters, previously registered as a legitimate business, the government has taken decisive measures in flushing out Tharsis City's criminal underground.
"Our efforts in flushing out the criminal underground thus far has proven successful. Now it's time for our legal and justice system to be perfected so that a tumor like the Red Dragons never happens again."
It is believed that Thursday's air-strike between the planets Mars and Earth has brought down the last remaining members of the Red Dragon syndicate including its avian command center. - MAP
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"Happy Valentine's day."
Grace placed a dozen red roses by the patient's bed, not realizing that the clinic's resident striped cat had followed her into his room. Shooing the cat out of patient's rooms was a daily occurrence at the St.Alban's Clinic, but Grace was as absent-minded as she was infinitely compassionate.
And so the cat sat atop the side table unobserved, tail swishing impatiently to and fro as it watched the chubby blonde nurse bob out of the room.
When she came back later to change the invalid's i.v. drip, she exclaimed in surprise when she found the toppled vase and the spilled water. A single rose lay in a puddle on the floor.
Scolding herself for missing the cat, she bent to pick the rose up and suddenly stopped. Everything but the slow drip of water from the tabletop to the ground had stopped moving.
It was raining that day. The rose fell from the dozen clutched in his hand and lay in the puddle forgotten.
He hoped she would be there.
The cat's cold nose against her outstretched hand startled her from the vision. "SILLY CAT!" she exclaimed softly, stroking his long whiskers.
She stood up to replace the i.v. bag, gazing lingeringly on the patient's face. How could such a tender vision come from a cold-hearted killer?
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