Train to Tucker

By George Clowers

A  thrilling, sensitive look at Artificial Intelligence, addiction recovery, and the price of forgiveness.

• Language: English
• Publisher: George H. Clowers, Jr.
• Release date: Apr 17, 2024
• ISBN: 9798223354161

George Clowers

From 18 years of active addiction, to counselor-in-training, to respected practitioner for 30 years George Clowers presents stories that enlighten aspects of recovery that will warm your heart and give new meaning to the prospects of recovery for the now generation. 

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2015 by George Clowers Train To Tucker

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This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Painting by Deborah Anne Clowers

I was on the Train to Tucker, breathing heavily, sweating. They had killed Jake Austin, or so I thought, and Leroy Fleming, his assistant spotted me in the second car, sitting by the pregnant woman. I knew he would want to talk to me, and I was glad he was not like his brother Larry, the trained assassin. I was tired, and my mission had failed. All I knew was that I was supposed to get rid of Jake, and I would receive the rest of the money to disappear. They didn’t tell me about Leroy, or I would have told them no, we had history. Jake and Leroy had become like brothers. This was not good. When the train stopped, he motioned for me to get off and go with him. I stood and followed behind him.

Marie rushed to the hospital and smiled when Jake could wave to her. He had been out of surgery for over six hours, and all signs were positive for a full recovery. His liver was damaged, and he may have lost sight in his right eye, but otherwise he was okay. The nurse gave her a clinical update, and said he just needs to rest now. Marie went over to hug him, kissed him on the mouth, and settled into a chair pulled up close to the bed, tripping over the robot monitor recording vital signs every ten minutes. She was worried about safety until Leroy called an hour later. She stepped out of the room and went to a waiting area just past the nurses’ station.

Hello.

Hey Marie, Leroy. How are you? he asked.

Well, afraid, but somewhat relieved, she told him.

Celia should be there shortly, he said to her.

Good. About the attack? she asked.

Not random, and I know why it happened. I’ll tell you more later, he gave her.

Thanks Leroy. You’re the best.

Okay. I’ll be there in about an hour.

2

Eight months ago, Jake had decided to return to the chip manufacturing business. He had bought property outside of the perimeter, and built a fabrication laboratory that was state of the art. There were sixteen robots that ran the place, and four humans that programmed the systems. Their latest chip had surpassed the internet of things and returned to individual process. One morning Robot Fourteen inadvertently split a disk that went into a power plant delivery system and improved efficiency 16%. The resulting sales had climbed to 2.5 billion dollars in three months, and the SR14 Chip had become an industry standard for power grid distribution.

Thomas Jeter, head of BYA Industries, wanted to buy Jake out, and Jake had refused an offer of thirty-eight billion. Jeter was not to be denied and had set other plans in motion that could disrupt the two trillion-dollar silicon chip industry. Jake was well respected in the chip world, and his return to differentiated ‘cookies’ was nothing less than genius. The attempt on his life was unprovoked, though the rumor mills were circulating that someone close to Jeter had been put out of business when Jake closed Triple Line Systems back in 2013, after the sale of Henson Technologies, the company his mentor, Wallace Henson had built to prominence. They did