Escape From Poverty

By R. Richard

My walk is strong and purposeful, not the stumbling shamble of a drug addict.. Since I show ready to defend, I don’t have to physically defend. Since I don’t show gang colors, but only dark shabby clothing, I present no threat to the pride of those who have only a bit of misplaced pride in their ‘home turf.’
I make my wary way to the back streets of a Bum Town gambling establishment. The front of the gambling place is patrolled by hoodlums who make sure that only those who have money to spend are allowed access.
I walk to an unlittered alleyway at the back of a gambling establishment. The alleyway is not patrolled by hoodlums, but rather by electronic means.
I switch on the electronic device that I wear and I enter the alleyway.
(The rest of you spent your school time memorizing lies or information of no value. I spent my time learning about computers. No, I didn’t just learn how to operate the commercial packages that most computer users work with. I learned how computers actually work. I learned the secrets of data transmission, of data encoding and of data security. I know things of real importance. However, as a poor boy, I don’t have the magic four year college degree that would buy me a comfortable life, in at least a middle class area. The fare for a middle class life is the completion of 60 college courses. I have 21 completed college courses, actually 22 completed college courses, if the final exam that I sent off at lunch time passes muster, as expected. My 22 completed college courses, plus the 10 completed college courses that my ‘life experience’ (read job) will earn me will gain me an Associates Degree and one more step up the stairway of a successful life. The good for nothing punk who had only a high school diploma this week will magically become a not quite good enough Associates Degree holder, with a nice increase in my salary.)
My electronic device will prevent the security system scanning the alley way from detecting me. That is, my electronic device will prevent the security system scanning the alley way from detecting me if I maintain just the right pace. I have practiced the necessary pace and my practice pays off as I arrive at a back door. I use an electronic key to unlock the door and I move through the door, without setting off alarms. I close and lock the door behind me.
My electronic device now synchs with the internal security system that scans the hallways and prevents the internal security system from detecting me. I move down a hallway, at a measured pace. I get to a service stairway. My electronic device now synchs with the internal security system that scans the stairway and furnishes the security access code that prevents the internal security system from detecting me.
I climb the stairway to the third floor, where the gambling money is stored.

• Language: English
• Publisher: R. Richard
• Release date: Jun 10, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005684938

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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Escape From Poverty

By R. Richard © 2023

Chapter 1: Secrets of Bum Town

I finally got off work at 5:30 PM, after a bit of forced, unpaid overtime. I went home, gulped a sleeping pill and then went right to bed. I got some five hours sleep, until my alarm woke me at eleven PM. I got up, got prepared and went for a walk in the night.

I walked from my low rent apartment into what the locals call Bum Town. Bum Town is a good area to avoid, especially at night. However, I spent my younger years in Bum Town and I learned how to survive in Bum Town.

I walk the Bum Town back streets. Ground floor living units show only dark windows. A lit ground floor back street living unit is an invitation for armed invasion. Those who live in ground floor living units black out the windows and live in black hell, at night. There are no homeless littering the filthy sidewalks of the Bum Town back streets. To try to live on a Bum Town back street sidewalk, is to die.

I encounter a few small groups of young boys. I don’t show the boys fear. I do keep my hand near the left back bottom of my shabby dark coat. I show ready to fight, to preserve my miserable life. The young boys could attack, but what for? I show the will to defend and likely offer little or nothing of value, to an attacker. My walk is steady and