AUSTIN THE POWERLESS---CHAPTER 1

  
                    AUSTIN THE POWERLESS

                                       Chapter 1

     (Contains some mild sexual references for adult readers only)

                                              a fictional Work

He died a natural death---if there is such a thing. Prior to his ICU flat line, he certainly did not live a natural or normal life.

Austin Corrington grew up in a family that Ozzie and Harriet would have envied. In school, Austin was a Jeopardy multi-day winner in waiting.

On the hardwood and the manicured infield he was a good, not great, player. Playing beyond high school never entered his mind. His athletic ability was restricted by his slender build and below average upper body strength. Charles Atlas would have loved him.

The ivy-covered walls of his Land Grant University surrounded more students than the entire population of his home county. Once more he excelled in the classroom. Upon graduation, he entered the United States Air Force. There he was considered one of the up and coming “Below the Zone” hot prospects that warranted promotion and worthy of top assignments ahead of his contemporaries.

So far so good, so natural and so Austin! However, during his entire life he would be considered in the bottom quartile in the arena of social interaction. His social life was as anemic as his upper body strength. He readily admitted he ate too many cheese and peanut butter crackers from a nearby Gulf gas station and drank too many Cokes growing up. On an asphalt- melting late August day, he was working for a farmer that provided a tube of ice cold, eight ounce, glass bottles of Coke. Austin bragged he consumed 18 that day!

A brief summary of his dating experiences may cast some much needed light on his social development trajectory. He first kissed a girl when he was 16, she was 15.

On the night of the Junior-Senior Prom, Austin had a date with a girl who came very close to sexually assaulting him. He quickly took her home and was in his home at 11pm. Later in life, he would discover that girls sexually matured much earlier than boys. His mother had never told him that bit of this biological trivia.

The aggressive behavior of another girl almost made him a candidate for the SVU television program. Her bold attack was only blunted when he repeatedly told her he had no intention of marrying her. He never dated either of these two girls again. Years later he saw both of these much, much older women at a high school reunion.  He said a silent thanksgiving prayer that he did not marry either one!


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