Release Date: April 23rd, 2013
Description:
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.
Description:
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
Be whatever we can be.
A year later I was preparing for the career selection exams when my sister Irma came to visit me. She had been writing to me once a week for three years. I think I had responded once but she sent it back saying she couldn't read what I had written. That made me feel absolutely great, can't even communicate with family.
"What have you been doing with yourself Irma?"
"I've been going to Space service prep school because mom wants me to enter the service. I know you don't agree with the track they put you on so I brought you a name and a credit chip."
"What's the name for Irma? I've got one already, Felix, and it hasn't done anything for me."
She stopped and looked me straight in the eyes. "Felix, I really have trouble knowing when you are joking. The name is for a guy who hacks exam scores so that you can get into something better and the credit chip is untraceable so that you can pay him. Do you understand?"
My temper told me that I had just been insulted so I raised my hand and tried to strike her. She was really fast as she clamped my hand and twisted just enough to snap a ligament in it. "I love you as a brother but you are not going to get the chance to hurt me. Use what I've given you and come see me when you get settled, temper too. Promise it."
I cradled my wounded wrist and sulked. "All right, I promise. I wasn't joking by the way. I thought you did want me to take another name."
Irma broke into tears and hugged me. "We really need to talk more. I'll be back in a month. Be good will you?"
I just looked at her with my mouth open for a few moments. "I will, when I can figure out what that means. Good bye."
Be whatever we can be.
A year later I was preparing for the career selection exams when my sister Irma came to visit me. She had been writing to me once a week for three years. I think I had responded once but she sent it back saying she couldn't read what I had written. That made me feel absolutely great, can't even communicate with family.
"What have you been doing with yourself Irma?"
"I've been going to Space service prep school because mom wants me to enter the service. I know you don't agree with the track they put you on so I brought you a name and a credit chip."
"What's the name for Irma? I've got one already, Felix, and it hasn't done anything for me."
She stopped and looked me straight in the eyes. "Felix, I really have trouble knowing when you are joking. The name is for a guy who hacks exam scores so that you can get into something better and the credit chip is untraceable so that you can pay him. Do you understand?"
My temper told me that I had just been insulted so I raised my hand and tried to strike her. She was really fast as she clamped my hand and twisted just enough to snap a ligament in it. "I love you as a brother but you are not going to get the chance to hurt me. Use what I've given you and come see me when you get settled, temper too. Promise it."
I cradled my wounded wrist and sulked. "All right, I promise. I wasn't joking by the way. I thought you did want me to take another name."
Irma broke into tears and hugged me. "We really need to talk more. I'll be back in a month. Be good will you?"
I just looked at her with my mouth open for a few moments. "I will, when I can figure out what that means. Good bye."
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About the author:
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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