11.(0-3) Slim Novel Eleven - "New Future" - the Start

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Slim Novel 11 
New Future

(Title Page and Chapters 1 to 3– Scroll Down)

The other Slim Novels

#1 Kimi

#2 Ali & Kimura – World’s Fair 1939

#3 Educating Kimi

#4 Olga & Boris – Honeymoon in Siberia

#5 New Decade – 1941 Tokyo

#6 Midway

#7 Tokyo at War – 1942/43

#8 Guadalcanal

#9 Kimi Heads North

#10 Losing War, Tojo Resigns - Meet the Leaders
#12 On the Ground Running, #13 Back in the Bronx, #14 Eddie in Occupied Japan, #15 Eddie in Medical School, #16 Eddie Around the World, #17 The Wisdom of a Very Old Man

Introductory Note

Kimi is a fisherman's daughter from North Island who served as Comfort Woman for Japan's Imperial Army in Manchukuo during the 1930's and got to Tokyo as sex worker at nightclub where the Eurasian Olga who becomes Kimi's friend, sings American jazz. In Tokyo, Kimi meets communist Harumi, and with Olga and Harumi shares Little Blue House. Another acquaintance is Kimura, top foreign correspondent, and thru his letters Kimi learns Japan's defeats at Midway and Guadalcanal. In Slim Novel 9, Kimi goes back to her village and gets pregnant by a village lad, Jun who is in training to be Kamikaze and who later dies in a flaming patriotic suicide crash. In Slim Novel 10, July 1944, Kimi becomes the personal secretary of recently resigned Prime Minister Hideki Tojo at his home and learns the inside story of Japan's losing war. Slim Novel 11 opens with Kimi’s pregnancy starting to show.

Chapter 1:  Lord B

Kimi works at the Tojos several months. As autumn starts and her belly begins to bulge and the first twitches of her not-yet-born baby surprise her sleep, she starts thinking it is time to find where she will give birth. And a good excuse is Lord B.  Since the American B-25s struck Tokyo, its inhabitants had not had another bombing but, with the loss of the near Pacific island of Saipan, a rumor circulates of an American super plane twice B-25 size and range. Someone somewhere starts saying “Lord B.” Then comes a Friday evening and Kimi is walking home when suddenly a siren starts. She does not even glance at sky because sirens always wail now and nothing happens. Another practice drill, she thinks, but then, ahead, searchlights crisscross, and she stops, as directly above her, at a spot in sky that astronomers call the Meridian, the two light beams outline for an instant what at first appears to be a giant bird; but the 4-engine protrusion fronting the wing and the wide sweep of aeronautic tail suggest an image of something nature never knew.

  “Lord B!” Dashing to road edge she gets into a ditch but after a moment and no jarring explosion the siren wails All clear. Wearily she gets out and the new life within her as if waked by its container's sudden fear, twitches several times. Does Baby feel my emotion? she wonders. Rubbing front soothingly, she continues on.

2. “Lor','Wha' a Lor'”

At Little Blue House, Olga and Harumi are full of info. “Lord B alright, darling!” Olga quips between sips of American coffee and bites of Russian black bread smeared over with English marmalade all picked up as ‘tips’ from an Imperial Army officer whose tip she lipped and tongued, as many women were doing now that the losing war was lowering morale and morals, and tightening a noose around sources of consumer goods.

   ‘Head for tip’ is typical Olga-speak for a rewarded blowjob.

   Olga swallows her coffee and continues. “Boeing! Boeing!” she repeats, “model 29, or B-29 as they are calling it, built to specifications of U.S. Air General Curtis Le May, aka ‘Bomb ‘em back to the Stone Age, if I may, Le May. The one you saw was on a psychological scare tactic or Yankee hanky-panky!” She drags on a long marijuana cigarette, which has been lying in ashtray curling white fragrant smoke. “The lone nightly visit will go on till next month then the real shit will hit our fannies.”

   “Olga, you are smoking that junk again!” Kimi exclaims but Olga responds by stuffing a black caviar-covered biscuit into Kimi’s mouth while Harumi takes on the B-29. As Harumi talks, intensely leaning forward in chair, her raggedy red robe, sewn together from old blankets, opens, revealing bare-bone boyish chest with nipples recently developed under Olga's insistent, pleasuring night suck.
   “Four 1000-horse-power Pratt-Whitney engine propellers; cruising speed 500 em-pee-aytch, or MPH miles per hour; range 3000 miles with capacity for one-ton of bombs payload. And at 9000 feet, about 3 kilometers high, untouchable by our interceptor planes or anti-aircraft fire.”

   “Lor', wha’ a lor’” sings out Olga in cockney imitation with glottal stop after the wha’.

3. Room and Board

Kimi decides to detach from the Tojos and leave her pals. Her pregnancy soon will be 5 months, and with food scarce she cannot explain her beginning belly bulge as due to overeating. Her plan to shelter Baby can only succeed where no one knows her.
   And she finds a possible answer! In the newspaper she spots Live-in Work, Hospital: Room & Board plus Salary. The address shows it is in the lower-class part of Tokyo near the Bay.

   Now, lying on flat on mat, wide awake, she pulls out the crumpled paper, smooths it and in bright cool moonlight gleaming through the window, rereads it. and exclaims in low voice "New adventure!"
   To read on, now, click 11.(4-7) Hospital - Mrs Tojo's Final Apology