Volunteer 4711

VOLUNTEER 4711

OLYMPIA BLACK

“Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.”

― MARK TWAIN, LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI

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About the Author

Also by Olympia Black

Volunteer 4711 © 2022 by Olympia Black. All Rights Reserved.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the author. The only exception is by a reviewer, who may quote short excerpts in a review.

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Printed in the United States of America

First Printing: October 2022

ISBN: 798357276506

NAMES AND ABBREVIATIONS:

• Commander: As we never know his name, it is used as a proper name and therefore capitalized.
• GC: Galactic Court-a galactic governmental body comprised of various species throughout the Milky Way. Its one goal is to provide universal guidelines for laws, economics, and information.
• IC: Instant Communicator
• UC: Universal Credits
• Water people: What humans are called by Silvers.

CHAPTER 1

VOLUNTEER 4711

I’m finished with being afraid. I take off the ridiculous cloth covering my head to get my bearings. I’m surrounded by shaking purple fabric; it’s the other women who’ve been taken, sobbing uncontrollably on every side of me. We are the price Earth has paid so that all of humanity won’t be enslaved. Or that’s what we were told anyway. But what do I know? I’m a nobody. I don’t even know anyone who’s a somebody. That’s probably how I ended up on this alien ship in a cargo hold with a couple of hundred other young human women. None of us come from a decent background who might have known someone to keep us from becoming volunteers; moving to an alien planet, and do only-god-knows-what? But I do have a clue; of course, we all do. That’s why these women are crying around me. We’ve seen the worst of human men and now we’re scared to death to see the worst of alien men.

Phew, deep breath. I’m hungover. Last night I drank with my best friend until I couldn’t drink anymore, hoping tequila would wash away this nightmare. Spoiler alert, it didn’t. This morning as we said our ‘goodbyes,’ I cried like a baby in her arms. I knew that that would be the last time I’d ever see her and the last time I would breathe in Earth’s air.