COMMON WORD PLUS STORY 55 MY DREAM WORKING FOR THE MAN

COMMON WORD PLUS STORY 55 MY DREAM WORKING FOR THE MAN

I was perplexed on what to do after graduating with a useless
degree, so I went out looking for work out locally in the world.

I went to the local big guy who ran a shipping business and inn.
I had a reference.
He was a rough character like the captain in master and commander.
I was put to work early in the morning scrubbing barnacles.
However; I was soon noticed as a person of value, so the captain said
to me, show up at noon and help with the schedules.

I soon was a part of the party. Exactly what I was to do? I was
the assistant to the captain who was amused by my naivete. He had
other associates, sons? but they were unreliable being debauched.

I was a good boy; they drank, womanized, went missing. It was
a post apocalyptic scene with ruined highways, wooden castle fiefdoms
and lawlessness. I had never seen so much action. Older woman thought
I was cute and said so to me openly.

There was a woman who lived in the inn at the table. The captain
flirted with her. I wanted to maintain my dignity but wanted to interact.
I saw a dolls at the dollar store of different nationalities, they
only had two little cheap ones. I bought them and she liked it.
I was clearly on a different wavelength.

his favorite liquor. I had to cross the ruined highway. When there,
there was a wooded facade with crossbow wielding soldiers. They
said, Who goes there! It was all mud and firth.

I didn’t know his name. I said, I had the liquor. He came out with
his men and they began drinking from big tankards. I was ashamed
not being versed in the “manly” ways. I said, If you do that, you
will be done by thirty. They thought that was funny. I am seventy-three
but ashamed to say it.

presented an obstacle. This is a common theme in my dreams.

THE END