Kerst

Kerst was several blocks long with side streets leading into it, all gang turf.

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Kerst Avenue, known as Cursed for its unsolved killings.

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She'd remind him she told him not to take the short cut to the freeway, to stay off Kerst even if it took him the extra fifteen minutes.

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Kerst was avoided at night and Joel's solitary headlights glowed like disembodied ghost eyes.

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The police put up a show of investigating every one, but Joel's friend, Captain Lou Holiday, had told Joel confidentially that they put very little time and effort into what happens on Kerst.

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There were so many killings, accidental and deliberate, on Kerst, it probably wouldn't be reported.

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Before Kerst could say anything, he added, "They'll be paid a fair wage, of course-and work would go much more quickly with people who knew how to build than with those of my men who are fighters, not builders."

Storm Rising Lackey, Mercedes 1995

He scribbled off a note in semiliterate Hardornen to Kerst directly.

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Before Kerst could say anything, he added, "They'll be paid a fair wage, of course-and work would go much more quickly with people who knew how to build than with those of my men who are fighters, not builders."

Storm Rising Lackey, Mercedes 1995

He scribbled off a note in semiliterate Hardornen to Kerst directly.

Storm Rising Lackey, Mercedes 1995