I Know Where I’m Going

By R. Richard

I then ask the rail station guard, “What now?”
The rail station guard says, “Normally, you would sit on the bench, over with the rest of the boys. However, I hear the train pulling in and I think that we can avoid possible trouble if you just stay here.
A man appears from inside the rail station and tells the rail station guard, “We got an officer draftee and he rates a private compartment. However, I can’t put just one guy in a private compartment.”
lI glance over at the girls that they’re boarding. I say, ‘Then let my lady join me.”
The man then speaks to a diesel dyke, who’s herding the girls toward the train. The diesel dyke detaches one of the girls and the girl rolls a suitcase over to me.
(The girl isn’t very big and the wheeled suitcase indicates intelligence. At least the girl and I can talk.)
I say, to the man, “Okay lead my lady and me to our private compartment.”
The man leads me and the girl to a small private compartment, at the front of a train car. I put my trunk and the girl’s suitcase into an overhead rack. The girl and I then enter the private compartment.
The girl looks suspiciously at me and asks, “What are you doing here?”
I say, carefully, “I won’t bite. I spent my school time studying math and computers. I did well and I got drafted as a Second Lieutenant, a military officer. As a military officer, I rate a private compartment. However, I needed a companion to actually get a private compartment. I got you, by random chance. However, I see that you have a gold top ticket, just as I have a gold top ticket. Obviously, we gold top ticket people deserve a private compartment. Now, if you will put the little gun away, we can get ourselves introduced.”
The girl looks hard at me and says, “They said that you killed a man.”
I lecture, “A boy attacked me, for no reason, and I defended myself. Unless you intend to attack me, you don’t need the gun. I won’t bite. My name is Jim Alt.”
The girl ventures, “My name is Marlene. You arrived in a juvenile prison van.”
I lecture, “A boy attacked me, for no reason and I defended myself. The boy died. They then put me in juvenile prison, after a sort of non trial, I have a lawyer getting me money damages from the non trial. Now, unless you intend to attack me, Marlene, you don’t need the gun. I won’t bite.”
Marlene says, “This us my first time away from home. It’s a bit stressful.”
I say, “They don’t draft ladies into the military, thus you must have enlisted.”
Marlene says, “I studied quality assurance, in school. My mother couldn’t support me anymore and I had to find a job, This trip to a military base is a trip to my job.”
I say, “Marlene, you opted to learn something useful, as I did. The public schools don’t like that.”
Marlene says, “I did have to struggle to get my quality assurance classes.”
I ask, “Marlene, could you get a good job with high school English, high school foreign language,
memorizing dates from high school history, that sort of thing?”
Marlene says, “They told me that I would go to college, after high school. No, they didn’t tell me how I could get the money to go to college.” (Marlene quietly puts the little gun away.)
I lecture, “Marlene, it seems that it always comes down to money.”
Marlene thinks for a moment and then asks, “You have a good job now and money. What happens when the job ends and the money goes away?”
I lecture, “Marlene, I work at the military base and I continue to learn. When the job ends and the money goes away, I have learned enough to get another good job with good money, maybe better money. I know where I’m going,”
* * *
Marlene thinks, (I have at least managed to survive, without having to become a whore, like my mother. However, my mother did support me, in good fashion, probably as good as she could manage. This Jim Alt is apparently a killer, but he will survive, he’s focused on survival and even success. I survived,

• Language: English
• Publisher: R. Richard
• Release date: Feb 2, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463380277

R. Richard

I'm the co-author, with Sunset Thomas, of Anatomy of An Adult Film.I have 48 novels and over 299 short stories currently published.I spent my early years in the part of Los Angeles known as the South Central. I was known as Whi' Boy, which was sufficient to identify me in that place. I'm a skilled Kung Fu player, using a system that I learned from a Korean I knew only as 'Pak.' It would be easier to tell you the places that Pak wasn't wanted by the police, rather than the places where he was wanted by the police. Pak's Kung Fu system, augmented by some bits and pieces from some Chinese practitioners is quick and effective, or I wouldn't be alive today.My early education was mostly obtained by stealing books from the public library (I always returned them and the Librarian even began to provide me with reading lists.) I did go to high schools, but I never really learned anything there. I eventually graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles, UCLA, with a degree in mathematics.I work as a Systems Analyst and also make a part of my living as a professional gambler (legal in Nevada.) I write science fiction and erotica. My published novels are:Anatomy of An Adult Film (With Sunset Thomas)1. Second Chance: God Killer2. Second Chance: Sky Pirate3. Second Chance: Scroll Seeker4. Second Chance: King of The Islands5. Second Chance: King of Zaya6. Second Chance: Duke of Averon7. Second Chance: King of Golomon8. Second Chance: King Of The Sky9. Second Chance: Warlord of Ifrequeh10. Second Chance: King of Ariby11. Second Chance: King of Mesodania12. Second Chance: King of Avuls13. Second Chance: King of Kemet14. Second Chance: King of Zorran15. Second Chance: King of Two Worlds16. Second Chance: King of Averon17. Second Chance: King's Duties18. Second Chance: King of The New WorldAdventurer: Simulation ProblemAdventurer: Pannar ProblemA Programmer's GambitAmateur StripperBeach MurdersBondage HouseCorporate Sex SlavesFriday NightGo Naked In The SoftwareGrasshopper WinterInvoluntary NudeLayoffNot A HeroPirates of The KeysSummer of SexThe LakeThe Last Moon DanceThe Nude Adventures of Plain JaneThe Secret Life of Wanda WilsonTails of the Pussycat LoungeTo Keep A JobTopless RestaurantToy WhoresVix: The MarineWayward BoyShort Stories:A Christmas Visit

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