The Alien's Secret Volume 3
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Robert M. Doroghazi. The Alien's Secret Volume 3
Author’s Note
Chapter Forty-Two. Finally Back on Track
Chapter Forty-Three. Bad Guys
Chapter Forty-Four. The Boarding House
Chapter Forty-Five. Breakfast—and More Bad Guys
Chapter Forty-Six. Work
Chapter Forty-Seven. Rennedee Makes Trouble
Chapter Forty-Eight. Our Hero is Helpless
Chapter Forty-Nine. Tomorrow Rennedee Will be Dead
Chapter Fifty. Another Epic
Chapter Fifty-One. Curtain Rods
Chapter Fifty-Two. A Little Diversion
Chapter Fifty-Three. Imogene
Chapter Fifty-Four. Unexpected Problems
Chapter Fifty-Five. Mission Accomplished
About the Author
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I hated college English class. The word symbolism brings back nothing but unpleasant memories. My interpretation of everything was inevitably different than the instructor’s, which meant I was always wrong. A guy in a wife-beater undershirt kills a woman in a drunken rage with a pick ax between the eyes: that sounded pretty nasty to me. Sorry, Robert: you didn’t appreciate the irony, the sarcasm, the pathos, and the inner turmoil. Nope, guess I missed that. I’m not sure whether it was my crew cut, or that I suggested we read Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island or Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, rather than Eldridge Cleaver’s Soul on Ice that upset them. I was told I would never get into medical school with an attitude like that. You’re lucky to get a B minus there, fella. Looking back, I think they were all just a bunch of pot-smoking hippies.
I’ll save you all that phooey and tell you straightaway what this story is about. There is no doubt who the bad guys are: they say bad things and do bad things; they manipulate people, steal from them, lie to them, and abuse, then discard them. The good guys are the Lone Ranger, Sergeant York, Audie Murphy, June and Ward Cleaver type: clean-cut, hard-working, loyal, honest people of character, willing to die for what they believe in.
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Hoken was headed south on the east side of the street, with no one on the sidewalk in front of him. He glanced around; no one behind him, and no one walking on the other side of the street. The traffic on his side of the street was coming toward him. He could see everything, no way he would be surprised.
Hoken had been on plenty of missions before. It was times like this that he could relax a little, no one could or needed to stay at battle stations every minute, but he was still always trying to think ahead and stay focused.
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