The long awaited To Live and Die in LA....
Nope. Not yet. Just the notes first.
Art from Kimberly Godfrey - https://www.etsy.com/shop/KimberlyGodfrey
Musical inspirations: https://youtu.be/-HgtaVOs-lM and
https://youtu.be/KY8j8V6lif4
Listen to this while reading: https://youtu.be/PEI2zet48Uc
Welcome to this fic. Fine, I am gonna make you wait a bit more. But I wanted to give you the reasons why I wanted to write this in the first place:
This called to me. I grew up in a Los Angeles suburb as the daughter of a cop and in college I was pre-law. I pulled some past experience, some references from my dad's duties, and just a general knowledge. Hollenbeck division is real, North Mission Road is the Los Angeles county coroner's office, Playa del Rey is now called Marina del Rey.
This came about out of passion and inspiration.
The title is from the Wang Chung song above, although it is also the title of a police movie. I wasn't allowed to watch said movie, because my grandfather worked on it (that was just a household standing rule- if grandpa worked on it I couldn't watch it - couldn't even watch Prizzi's Honor which my grandfather is credited as the Transportation Coordinator: Los Angeles and was the bus driver in a scene).
When writing the story, I remembered growing up in the 80s in LA, how the song stuck to me even after I left.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers song Under the Bridge, hit me when it came out, bringing me back home. The acoustic version above is just a work of art.
And finally the work of art that is the backdrop for the cover art comes from the talented Kimberly Godfrey. I need to get this and if I ever get my own writing room, that pic is going in!
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