The fifth short story: Enemies Chancla, Boogey, and Bomber were three prisoners who stayed in the prison dungeon for four and half years and were forgotten by everyone even the administration. They had giving up hope of ever being together with the rest of the other inmates but still wanted to kill each other. One night the captain from the prison went down to the dungeon and told the three men “they were being released”, but the convicts had a bad feeling about this. Once they arrive to the airport with forty dollars and a one way ticket to their hometown in their hand they realized they were actually being released. The men asked the guard why they were being released and he just said” a Class-Action suit was filed by one of the jailhouse lawyers and they were they were giving free time according to the court”. The men were shocked and scared they realized that they didn’t have a reason to kill each other because either had done anything to deserve it. They were sad to leave each other but exchange information to keep in touch and went their separate ways.
The sixth short story: Mother’s Ashes A lawyer who mostly represents clients accused of crimes takes advantage of people especially female clients who are poor would wound up trading an hour of sex for their freedom which he didn’t mind at all. He first met Carmen awhile back when her parents were killed in an auto accident he was appointed executor of their estate because their will was kept in trust at his firm. He always dreamt of having sex with her but it never happened. Until one of his clients Big Joe a drug dealer told him that apparently biker’s informants on the streets discovered that Carmen was working with the narcs. So he went and had lunch with her to find out and to get in bed with her as well. But she wasn’t she had issues concerning her past life and wanted him to help her by throwing her mother’s ashes at the tallest hill. Which he end up doing and while being there with Carmen and her brother Michael, the brother drops the bag of ashes and Carmen makes the lawyer get it. Has he goes down the cliff to get the bag he looks up and realizes that Carmen and Michael take his wallet and car and leaves him there, as he fell, hurtling down the canyon he realizes with sad irony, she had fucked him after all.
The seventh short story: Bull’s Blood A Mexican man named Franklin has just gotten divorced and couldn’t overcome it. After being depress for a long time, he heads to a bull riding event with his friend and while being there meets a beautiful young woman by the name of Lynn. They started dating but their family and friends didn’t approve of it because he was a much older man but was also Hispanic and Catholic and she was a young Caucasian Mormon. They stopped seeing each other because of their differences. But while being apart they realized that they were meant for eachother. While being at a bullfight they were invited to drink and take a bite off from the bull’s heart. When they were doing that they both understood each other that from this day on they were committed to love and trust one another for the rest of their lives.
The eight short story: Runaway A sixteen year old boy by the name of Runaway lived at an orphanage and the only person he had in his life was his grandmother. He was a trouble maker and was always running away to see his grandmother. One night he and his crew of friends decided to leave and go spend Christmas day at Runaways grandmothers’ house but what Runaway didn’t realize was that that was going to be the last time he would see his grandmother. While being there with her she gave him sixty thousand dollars and told him to spend it wisely on his future goals. The next day the cops came to her house looking for the boys but she never opened the door, she was dead.