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    Alien Assignment
    Alien Assignment
    Alien Assignment
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    Alien Assignment

    By R. Richard

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    Jim Orr is a hard working computer programmer. As a reward he gets fired.
    A goon tries to abuse Jim, as Jim leaves. Jim defends himself and the goon dies.
    As a result, the only job that Jim can get is a very strange job, out at the edge of town.
    Jim slowly realizes that he’s working for space aliens.
    Jim and his language translator then develop a romantic relationship.

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    I get arrested and the police take me down to headquarters and put me in a jail cell. I ask to speak to a lawyer, now, but the police ignore me. However, since goon boy is dead, the police take the security camera footage.

    I manage, from my cell, to flag down a passing lawyer. I tell the man, “I need a lawyer now. Get me Winston Eller Smith. I can pay his kind of fees and I want enough damages money to make it well worth his time.”

    I don’t get Winston Eller Smith. I do get a junior lawyer, from his office.

    I lecture the junior lawyer, “I was attacked, through no action of my own, by an employee of The Lozenge Corporation. I black out, during times of violence, so I had no idea what happened after I was attacked. I only later find that I disassembled goon boy, who died. I will not survive a night here in jail. I can pay even the fees of Winston Eller Smith, I have a lot of stock or bond investments.”

    The junior lawyer asks me, “Did you request a lawyer, when the police arrived?”

    “I told the police, ‘I want to talk to a lawyer, now.’ The police ignored me.”

    The junior lawyer tells me to wait a few minutes. He then wanders off, somewhere.

    I meditate.

    The junior lawyer then reappears, with a clerk and a cop.

    The clerk tells me, “You face charges in the death of one Wesley Prince.”

    I lecture the clerk, “I was attacked, through no action of my own, by an employee of The Lozenge Corporation. I black out, during times of violence. I have no idea what happened to Wesley Prince, if that was his name. I was then arrested by police. I politely told the police, ‘I want to talk to a lawyer, now.’ The police ignored me. I have been here for several hours and I have not been permitted to make a phone call, despite my request.”

    The clerk asks, “Did you know Wesley Prince?”

    “To the best of my recollection, I had never seen Wesley Prince, until just before he attacked me.”

    The clerk asks, “Did you argue with Wesley Prince?”
    “Not at first. He shoved me and I told him to kindly keep his hands off me. He then shoved me again. That’s the last that I remember about Wesley Prince.”

    After a time and a lot of waiting, I get released., but I have to come back for my arraignment hearing,

    I then get a ride back to the offices of Winston Eller Smith. There, I get the bad news, “Person or persons unknown totally destroyed your car. Person or persons unknown also totally destroyed your house. What will you do?”

    I answer, “I have insurance. If I can use a phone, I can get help.” I get the use of a phone and Joe Insurance arrives with a check. While I wait for Joe Insurance, I get things set up with the lawyers.

    I then get a ride with Joe Insurance, to Rent-A-Car. I rent a car. I then drive to The state Department of Labor. There is no way I’m gonna get a job, but I’ll try for at least temp work.

    The people at the Department of Labor tell me that it’s unlikely that I can even get temp work, but there is one possibility. They give me an address.

    I drive to an area of the city that I have never visited before. It’s out at the edge of the city and the office is hidden down a little side canyon. I go in and I get interviewed by a hot looking babe. Hot looking babe talks to me, but she then talks to another woman. I then have to read a computer program design, in some sort of foreign language. I manage to translate the design to computer code. The ladies then call in a guy. Hot looking babe is normal sized. The other woman and the guy are giants, w

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherR. Richard
    Release dateNov 9, 2018
    ISBN9780463505014
    Alien Assignment
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    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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      Alien Assignment

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      Copyright 2018 R. Richard

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      Alien Assignment

      By R. Richard © 2018

      I, Jim Orr, have just completed a software project for the company for which I work. I had a very little help from a couple of other computer programmers, but I basically did the work by myself. At the end of the project, the company was contractually obligated to run a Customer Acceptance Test (CAT). I did a short preview of the CAT, for the customer rep, and it went well. Then a full, 25 hour, CAT was scheduled. The company furnished the customer with a list of CAT testers. James Orr was the only actual name on the list of CAT testers, with To Be Determined (TBD) filing in the rest of the tester assignments.

      The customer representative than went in and talked with Ronnie Tollor, the Department Manager. The customer rep lectured Ronnie, Assuming that the software that we have contracted for, with your company, passes the Customer Acceptance Test, we are going to need continuing support. From the list of testers that you have furnished us with, it appears that only James Orr is familiar with the software. We are not going to accept software that only one programmer is familiar with. You will furnish us with a full team of named testers, not TBD, or we cancel the contract and go to court. If you try to start the test with James Orr and then other team testers fail to show up or fail to perform, we cancel the contract and go to court. Am I clear?

      Ronnie then tells the customer rep, No one else wants to work with James Orr.

      The customer rep asks, Then, why was James Orr assigned to develop a computer program that will require continuing support?

      (If Ronnie were reduced to just one body part, he would be an anus. Ronnie is a politician and his work assignments are all determined entirely by politics.) Ronnie says, "We were short handed, at the start of your project. James Orr was to be assigned, as a temporary fill in only. However,

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