Andromeda Mayday by D. Tolmach

Author:D. Tolmach [Tolmach, D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-11-11T00:00:00+00:00

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Osco and Vildana were neighbors on the 783rd floor of one of the millions of identical thousand-story housing projects that made up the suburbs of Port City. Ion lived just above them. They took the long smelly ride up to his floor in awkward silence, Vildana staring at the penis someone had carved into the door to keep herself from stealing glances at Osco, who was reading the swearwords that had been tagged all over the lift for the millionth time. When the elevator finally opened, they walked into a dark hall. One of the many banes of living in Galactic Dynasty public housing was that it took forever to get someone from the Department of Habitation to change a lightbulb, and the residents found it easier to use the built-in flashlight on their thermal suits than find a stepladder and change it themselves. Their lights illuminated white walls that left powdery streaks on your clothes when you brushed up against them and which were also covered in profanity, alongside band names and heartfelt admissions of love and guilt. The pair made their way down the long hallway to Ion’s apartment. His doorbell was a dissonant buzz, and after a few seconds, the door opened.

“Vildana! Osco!” Ion reached out and hugged them both. “Come on in.”

The flat was small, and made even smaller by crates of what appeared to be some sort of soft drink stacked up against every wall. They hung their thermal suits on the coat rack and put on house slippers, and Ion led them into the kitchen, where a grandfatherly man with a long yellowish beard was loudly slurping a bowl of borscht.

“LOOK POPS, VILDANA AND OSCO STOPPED BY!” He had to yell because his father was almost completely deaf. The old man smiled at them politely without recognizing them or, for that matter, his own son. Ion filled a vase with tap water the color of brass and put the flowers in it before taking three glasses from the cupboard.

“What are all these cans?” Osco asked.

“That is Dark Fluid Energy Drink, and it’s going to make me very rich.” He pulled one from the refrigerator and filled half of each flute, then popped the champagne bottle and added it to the drink. The cocktail fizzed and a violet steam seemed to rise from it. Osco and Vildana looked at each other, but their host seemed so enthusiastic and it would be impolite to refuse.

“Let’s go to my room.”

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