Buck's Phototales

Paola found herself to be incarcerated and she didn't much care for the experience.
But she didn't figure on being there long ..
She had someone on the inside who was supposed to help her bust out of there.
But other than having lost her freedom temporarily she had no complaints for she hadn't been mistreated.
At least not yet.
Hell ... If anything she supposed that she was being given preferential treatment.
Not so the other members of her gang ...



Paola looked out the window that served to both ventilate and illuminate her cell ...
And there was Dominique, one of her henchmen strangling slowly as she swung suspended by the length of rope around her neck!



"Poor Dominique!" Paola thought. "That's no proper way for an Amazon Warrior to die!"
But then she shuddered as she thought of the two others who were soon to face the same form of execution.
Old habits die hard and the women who fought their way out of Amazonia to find themselves in the modern world
soon formed alliances and then went about killing their rivals old and new much as they had done in their own dimension ...



Lissa and Bailee - the names they had taken here in the modern world -
were two prime examples of Amazon women who had mastered the new weapons that were readily available to them ...



Their target on this particular afternoon was the proud black Amazon leader who called herself Ms Desiree ...
And they got her too!



Oh yes indeed!
Those two got Ms Desiree but good!
Gave Ms Desireee three slugs right in the middle of her chest!



The others of her crew were really nothing more than collateral damage ...



But they did serve to make one fine pile once they were stacked properly!



But things over here just weren't like they were in the old days ...
Back in Amazonia an occasional assassination such as this happened all the time ...
And depending pretty much on who was killed and the state of affairs in general the entire episode might well be overlooked.
But here we have the foreign concept of Law and Order
and one way or another the perpetrators were going to be brought to justice!



And so in the fullness of time Lissa was tracked down ...



She was alone in a motel room ...



And she was just ready to step into the shower when she was interupted ...

Caught completely off-guard as she was ...



The law man emptied his pistol in and around her left breast -
claiming afterward that she had pulled a gun on him as she tried to make good her escape.
Whether anyone believed him or not is not a matter of record.



While Lissa had been alone when she was killed,
Bailee had kept herself surrounded by the members of her crew.



Other than to lend her a false sense of security, Balilee's gambit served no real purpose ...



But at least the woman did not die alone as so many of her kind had and did ...



Bailee and her entire gang were gunned down by a person or persons unknown in one fell swoop and stacked up provocatively ...
Much as she and Lissa had done to Ms Desiree and her team!



But now Paola's attention was drawn to the window at the front of her prison
where she was treated to the sight of a likely pair of Amazons
one of whose feet were already kicking fruitlessly in the air
as she swung from the make-shift scaffold that had been hastily put together.



Scarcely was the blonde girl's ordeal over before the block was kicked out from beneath the feet of her no less buxom partner-in-crime ...



Not being a true scaffold there was no trap door through which the individual slated for execution could fall ...
The fall in conjuction with the victim's own weight and a properly tied hangman's noose
would serve to break the neck thereby ensuring a quick and relatively painless death.
That was not so in this case and so the two Amazons were slowly strangled.



"I don't want to die that way!" Paola must have spoken aloud although she hadn't meant to.

"Don't worry!" Her jailor reassured her.
"The sheriff and I are on your side!
We sort of figured that along about dark you'd make your play to escape!
Haven't you noticed that the rope I tied you with is sort of loose?"

The jailor was right. Her bonds were loose - a fact that Paola had noticed some time earlier.
She simply hadn't attached any particular significance to the fact ...
But now she was encouraged!
Why, there was even a gun left in plain sight atop the sheriff's desk!
The Amazons who were hanged earlier had been taken down and so the crowd had dissipated ...
There didn't seem to be anyone around so about now was as good a time as any to make her move!



Paola eased her way out of the cell, slipped on over to the sheriff's desk and picked up the gun.
She was making her way toward a side door ...

When suddenly the lights came on and the room was fully illuminated!
The sheriff and his deputy came through the front door of the jail ...

"What's this?" The sheriff demanded of his deputy as he attempted to supress a smile.
"The prisoner has escaped! And she's armed!
Deputy! Defend yourself!"



The deputy complied immediately by pulling his weapon and pumping a round into Paola's gut!
The noise of gunfire in the confined space was enormous ...

"Damme!" The jailor exclaimed as their victim clutched her belly as she began to double over at the waist.
"That set my ears ringing!"

"Yeah! And what's worse ..." The sheriff observed ...
"You done her in the belly!
But you missed her navel!
Outie is not going to be any too pleased working her over if you can't do better than that!"

"O Lordy, yes! The Coronor! I plumb forgot!"



"Here! I'll stand 'er up for ya so's you can try again!"
And the sheriff fired a round that took Paola in the upper chest which served to fling her back against the wall.



The jailor's second round fared no better than the first if his object had been to hit the woman in the navel ...
Paola grunted as the bullet punched ino her belly while the sheriff shook his head in disgust and put a second round into her chest.



As she doubled over slightly before beginning her slide to the floor,
Paola managed to squeeze the trigger of the gun she held ...
But it did little in the way of damage since while it held a clip, the firing pin had been removed.

Paola coughed and then snarled at the deputy, "You double-crossed me!"



Her useless weapon made a metallic clunk as it hit the floor only moments before Paola finished sliding down the wall of the jail.

"You're going to want some practice at the firing range, Deputy!" The sheriff informed his side-kick.
"Two bullets fired at less than ten foot distance - an' you missed her navel with both rounds!"



Paola managed no more than a few grunts and gurgles before she expired on the jailhouse floor.

"Well, she did say that she didn't want to hang, didn't she?" The sheriff wanted to know.



"That's right sheriff!" His deputy assured him.
"So you arranged for Paola's escape!
And I did up this Wanted Poster just like you said!
Now all I want to know is ...
Who gets the reward?"