Shadow Killer: Survivor

By R. Richard

I get dressed in my hunting outfit. It’s a gray outfit with a dark urban camouflage pattern. In the inner city areas where I work, I am very difficult to see at night. I’m ready to go and I check my outside surveillance cameras to find that the street is clear of people. I exit my house, into a steady rain, that will make me even more difficult to see.
Chapter 2: The Night Hunter
I move silently, down dark side streets. I have scoped out a likely target, for tonight. The rain will probably make for a short night for a drug sales crew and the drug crew chief will collect the night’s receipts and then make his way back to his car, which he parks on a dark side street.
The drug crew chief is a big, tough goon. He carries a pistol and he feels no fear, as he walks through the cement valley of death, since he’s the baddest mofo in the valley. The actual baddest mofo in the valley takes a position behind a power pole. There’s a shop, down the block, with a lighted window that will reflect off the rain puddles and distract the goon. I then wait, in ambush.
The goon walks along the rain slicked sidewalk, until he gets to my power pole.
I strike, out of the dark, using killing strikes. (The goon is large and tough. I have no interest at all in seeing if I can take the boy in an even fight.)
I make sure that the downed boy will not get back up. I then frisk the corpse for a .380 pistol, a nice cat’s eye ring and a largish money bag. I stash the loot and then depart, in a direction away from where I want to go. (They say that the night has a thousand eyes and that figure may be understated. From the size and weight of the goon’s money bag, I have made a major score and now I need to concentrate on my escape,)
I cover some ground, checking my back trail often.
I detect no pursuit, but careful is a part of my normal operation. I move well away from the area of my hit and only then do I begin to move back toward my place. The rain has picked up and it will help to cover any tracks that I might leave. I get back to my alley, which is now a running stream. I wade back to my place and slop off my sopping wet clothes and then wring them out, over a sink, I dry myself off and then I mop the entrance clear of standing water, throw my clothes into the dryer, where the warm exhaust will be lost in the storm. I hide the stash from my night’s hit and then I then reward myself with a work out shake. I then get what’s left of a night’s sleep, so that it won’t look like I have been active late at might.
In the morning, I get up and have a workout shake. I get dressed, snag my workout outfit and walk to the gym.
Wally, the gym manager, asks me, “Did you hear about the murder downtown?”
I say, “No. but I did get the really big news. I got laid off at my work, but I got another work gig and I can pay my gym fee and also buy another jug of Power Pro.”
Wally says, “First things first.”
I pay my gym fee and then get dressed and get to my workout. Today is arms and shoulders day and I work hard, so that I will have the arm strength to do what I do. I get finished with my arms and shoulder workout and then I do a movement and balance workout. (I don’t really need to work on my lower body, after last night’s long journey, but the balance part of the workout is good and necessary. I finish the last of my workout, shower up and get dressed.

• Language: English
• Publisher: R. Richard
• Release date: Aug 14, 2020
• ISBN: 9781005452360

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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Shadow Killer: Survivor

By R. Richard © 2020

This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance of characters in the story to people, living or dead is coincidental.

Chapter 1: The Computer Programmer

I get called into the Department Manager’s office, mid afternoon of a Friday.

The DM stares at me for a bit and then he says, Jake Line, I’m gonna have to let you go.

I tell the DM, That’s one of the drawbacks to being a Contract Employee, no job security.

The DM says, You seem to have trouble getting along with the regular employees.

I tell the DM, That’s an interesting observation. Almost of my work was done by myself, all alone in a little isolated office, in the computer lab area or in a computer lab, as assigned. I had very little contact with the regular employees. If I may know, which of the regular employees did I have trouble getting along with?

The DM says, "Wesley said that you almost never attended project meetings.

I calmly reply, Per the direct orders of the Project Manager, I was never to attend meetings, except at his direct order. I obeyed the Project Manager, nothing more.

The DM says, Billy said that you argued with him after he caught you using your own peripheral driver code, instead of what the manuals said.

I again calmly reply, The Project Manager pointed out, to Billy, that what I was doing worked, the examples from the manual did not work. The argument was between the Project Manager and Billy, not between me and Billy.

The DM asks, Why did you use your own peripheral driver code, instead of the examples from the manual?

I again calmly reply, I have been at this programming game a while. I tried the examples from the manual manual and they didn’t work. I then talked to a few other programmers, that I know, and then Pablo and I worked with the computer, devices and a scope. We figured out what worked and then we tested things. If I may politely point out, the project is still using the device drivers that Pablo and I figured out.

The DM says, You don’t believe what manuals say?

I say, I believe what manuals say, only after I verify the information. Some others are not so careful as to verify."

The DM asks, What will you do now?