Blue and Gray Reflection

The neon lights of Los Angeles resemble colorful fungi that live on carrion. Veteran police officer Cooper Kelly rescued dancer Emily Watson on patrol. At first, it was just a routine rescue: breaking up a street harassment, sending her home, and leaving a phone number. But Emily called for help again and again, and Cooper intervened again and again. He watched her go from clubs to underground brothels, from a laboratory assistant who briefly regained her dream, to being fired again due to trembling hands and memory loss. Cooper was a Marine Corps veteran who had seen blood and lies in the street fighting in Fallujah; he was a SWAT platoon leader, but law enforcement PTSD was like a rusty nail piercing his bone marrow, causing him to carry the dust of Fallujah and the blood of his teammates every time he enforced law.