Book Title: Next
You: Destined for Something
Author: Angus H.
Day
Release Date: April
23, 2013
Genre: Sci-Fi
Fantasy
Publisher: GMTA
Publishing, LLC
Presented by: As
You Wish Tours
BRIEF SYNOPSIS
In the last year of mandatory school
each soon to be graduate takes a multitude of tests to efficiently funnel them into the right
career. Personality profiles showing you to be low IQ, bigoted and
prone to senseless violence really increase your chances of being
denied. Scores mean enough to tempt test takers to cheat using answer
sets bought from sketchy characters. You don't always get what you
pay for as Felix Dernoft discovers in Destined for...Something, a
Next You novel.
EXCERPT
Felix Gets Old
fashioned ADD treatment.
A large man with a
uniform that had a peace keeper logo on it appeared. "Are you
Felix Dernoft?" I nodded.
His right hand
extended like he was going to clasp my shoulder then changed
direction and speed as it slammed into my left cheek tossing me to
the floor.
"Felix
Dernoft, you will communicate verbally with me as I do not speak
nods. Get up and let’s go."
I jumped up and
stood waiting for him to tell me where we were going but he started
walking fast instead and I had to run to catch up. Thinking I would
walk next to him I tried to get even as his right hand swung out to
the side palming my face and throwing me behind him as he turned on
me.
"Where do you
think you are going Dernoft? You follow, get it?'
"Yes."
"Yes Sir will
be your response." I nodded, he backhanded, I got back up.
"Yes...sir."
He grabbed my
shoulder and looked at my back then back to my face. "I was
just checking to see if there was any technological reason why you
were slow Dernoft. Sorry to say I found no excuses. You will be
with me for three days as a sentence for your behavior in the
classroom today." His face a centimeter from mine "You
will form a shitty opinion of me so you might as well start now."
He spun and walked off again, this time I stayed a meter behind him.
We arrive at a room
I had never been to before with a lot of bunks, all three high.
"Dernoft, your home for the next three days will be bunk one
three five." I just looked at him trying to interpret what he
had said. He made to move his right hand and I screamed "yes
sir" before I took off running to anywhere. I had no idea what
one three five meant but I would figure it out without any more
beatings I hoped. Looking over my shoulder I could see he was
following me and looked like he was angry. I turned left down an
aisle then right between two bunks before my face met big guy's
forearm. "Dernoft, do you have any questions on how to find
your bunk and what else you were supposed to do? Surely you do not
think the next three days will be spent in your bunk when you do
manage to find it."
"Yes sir"
I said from my position on my back looking up at all five of the
versions of the big man that now occupied my vision. My vision
settled down to one big man with his feet wide apart and fists on his
hips glaring at me. I got up.
"Dernoft,
let's try this again. You are assigned to bunk one three five"
his right hand shot out and grabbed my left shoulder as I was turning
to run again "which is two rows that way and the number is on
the bunk post like this." He pointed to the post next to me as
an example. "On your bunk there is an epad and stylus you will
need for the session you are now ten minutes late for. Get it now
and meet me back here...go!" He turned me loose and I ran where
he indicated, grabbed the items and returned.
"Dernoft, see
how much easier things are when you wait for all of the
instructions?"
"Yes sir!"
AUTHOR BIO
I live in Fort Collins Colorado with my
wife and son. My daughter has embarked on her career as a graphics
designer. I've been an Infantryman, Swine Farmer, smattering of other
trades and jobs and now I'm a manufacturing pharmaceutical chemist.
What aspect of my life that is devoted to fitness favors swimming in
open water which means I spend most of the year working out in a pool
then hit the lakes when it warms up a bit. My wife Cheryl safety
kayaks for me when we manage to make it work. One day when I was
waiting on everybody else in the house to get off of the computer
when it hit me. Start doing what I had wanted to do for the last
thirty years, write science fiction stories. I've read extensively,
experienced way more than a person is entitled to and I am a
scientist. That being said, sometimes I just pull them out of my ass.
The ability to picture a scene in my head helps, once I stop laughing
uncontrollably for no reason.
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