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Krull
“Hey, you just have one more delivery on the schedule. Mind swinging by
the office to drop us off first so you can handle it solo? It is Friday night
after all…” Johnny’s grating voice interrupts my brooding as I navigate the
delivery truck through the sweltering city streets.
I breathe a slow, calming breath through my nose for the twentieth time
today, the cab’s stale air doing little to calm my fraying nerves.
“Dropping us off at work is barely out of the way. It’s not that big a deal.
The next delivery is only one box.”
The urge to snap at Sam and Johnny surges through me, but I tamp it down.
My co-workers quit pretending to work about halfway through my first day
on this delivery job. They’re no help at all, leaving all the heavy lifting to
me.
My kind, humans call us Others, fell to Earth a little over a quarter of a
century ago. Nagas, minotaurs, orcs, wolven, and other species just dropped
onto the sands of the Mojave Desert with nothing but the clothes on our
backs. The scientists still have no idea where we came from or how it
happened.
I was two years old at the time, but remember nothing of our homeworld,
An’Wa, except what the elders tell me.
We’ve been confined to the fenced Integration Zone near Los Angeles since
then. Until recently, we’ve only been allowed out of the ten square block
area to work. The government even passed a special bill that makes it legal
for employers to pay Others a third of human minimum wage.
It irritates the shit out of me that Sam and Johnny make three times my
$4.90 per hour wage yet make me do one hundred percent of the work.
Now they want me to do the last delivery without them so they can skate
out early.
“Sure. No problem.” I say tightly but don’t complain. I need the job.
Ignoring the GPS directions, I drive them back to their cars. At least I’ll
have some peace without them squeezed in next to me, blasting their music
too loud. And maybe the ancient A/C will actually have a chance of cooling
the interior below boiling once their sweaty asses are gone.
With barely a “goodbye” and definitely no “thank you” for doing their work
for them, the two men scatter to their cars before I motor off toward my last
delivery of the week.
The Integration Zone is a shithole. It was a ghetto when the original
inhabitants were moved to better housing and the government surrounded
the ten-block area with barbed wire fencing and threw us inside. It hasn’t
gotten any nicer over the last quarter century.
The neighborhood I’m driving through isn’t much better. Although it’s near
the pricey oceanfront stores and high-rises, this part of town is like the land
that time forgot
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