The Green Girl

By Gary Lester

A small-town girl’s life is forever changed when a top secret government experiment is inadvertently delivered to her door.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Channel 37 Publications
• Release date: Dec 28, 2011
• ISBN: 9781452422428

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The Green Girl

by Gary Lester

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A Channel 37 Publication

The Green Girl

Copyright 2011 by Gary Lester

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 1

Dr. Arnold Rogers entered the mail room carrying two packages. Myron Backstrom, nephew of Phineas Backstrom – Director of Operations at Recalcitrant Laboratories Palo Alto branch, sat munching on a peanut butter, pickle and potato chip sandwich.

Myron, Rogers said. I need these to go out immediately.

Sure, just put them on the table, Myron answered, not pausing in his sandwich attacking zeal.

Myron, Rogers said. Myron, Rogers repeated.

Myron put his sandwich on the desk a turned on his stool to look at the doctor.

Rogers held up a sealed glass tube filled with a green substance. This goes to the army’s testing facility in Yuma, Arizona. He held up a box, This goes to my niece in Dayton, Ohio. Got that?

Tube, Dayton and box, Yuma. Myron turned back to his sandwich.

No! Just the opposite. Tube, Yuma with an MP guard preferably and the box Dayton.

Yeah, sure, doc. Just messing with you.

Myron, you have to take this seriously. The tube is going to some kick-butt general who supposedly sent a whole crypto crew to the Aleutians.

The Aleutians? Where’s that?

Someplace cold and without comic books, Rogers said as he walked out. Please, God, Rogers thought, why was hiring stupid nephews not against corporate policy. At least he had the forethought to have the department’s secretary outlining what package went where, to cover his butt. The memo should be reaching uncle Phineas’ office right about now.

***

Emily Rogers walked home after a particular trying day at school. She loved learning, she hated be the butt of all the jokes. Her biggest antagonist, Natalie Swayne, spent the day calling her stick girl. Not that Emily cared if her body grew curves or not, intellectually she knew it would eventually happen. Just not in Natalie Swayne’s timing.

What a crappy way to spend your birthday, Emily thought. She made sure Natalie was long gone before she started walking. She was glad at least it was a nice day.

It was nice, until she saw the two army jeeps parked in her driveway. The soldiers sitting in them looked bored. She wondered why they were there; she didn’t know anyone in the army. She felt their eyes on her as she turned and walked up the drive.

Are you Emily Rogers? the ranking soldier asked.

Oh God, did something happen?

"No,