Landed On Black by Zach Fortier

Author:Zach Fortier [Fortier, Zach]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: police, Ann Rule, true stories, True Crime, award-winning stories, true crime stories, crime stories, Cops, biography, police work, police stories, short stories, cop stories
Publisher: SteeleShark Press
Published: 2014-08-02T04:00:00+00:00

A couple of years passed, and I saw White on the street one day with her new female lover. She looked pregnant, so I stopped and talked to her and her new companion. After a few minutes of small talk I asked bluntly, “Are you pregnant?”

She said yes, and that she was six months pregnant—and guess who the father was?

I thought about it a moment. “No way—not Osbaldo?” I said, shocked.

She smiled a large, toothy smile, showing a couple of new gaps in her already-compromised teeth. “Yep. Osbaldo is my baby daddy, and we three are going to raise the baby as one big family.”

The two women embraced and were acting pretty happy about the idea of the baby and their family. I was horrified at the life this child would have. White was rumored to be a heroin addict, and Osbaldo would be no prize as a father. I asked White about the heroin, and she said she got clean when she found out she was pregnant. She said she could just tell the baby would be healthy because she had been so careful. I had my doubts.

I wish I could tell you the baby was born healthy and that they somehow pulled off this tri-parenting arrangement. The baby, however, was born an addict, underweight, and went through drug withdrawal almost immediately after being born. It died a couple of weeks later. White was charged with neglect and actually served some time. Osbaldo moved on to another lesbian partner until White got out of jail. They were on-again, off-again in the following years, living together in Osbaldo’s basement dungeon apartment, sharing food and a bed. White eventually contracted AIDS through her IV drug use. Somehow she managed not to infect Osbaldo, or her girlfriend. I watched her waste away quickly after she was diagnosed, and eventually she died. This was the reality of inner city life. It was harsh and brutal and full of surprises you never saw coming, like Osbaldo and his lesbian harem.

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