Maximum Experience by Misty Dais

Maximum Experience by Misty Dais

Author:Misty Dais [Dais, Misty]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Space Academy, YA, sci-fi, Academy, Dystopian, No Adults, Gap Year, Virus, Romance, Adventure, Spaceship, Survival, Misty Dais, Quest, Teamwork, Beach Blanket Reads, Belonging, New Adult, College, Millennials, Science Fiction, Income Disparity, Precarious work, Maximum Experience, Friends, Space Explorer, Crew, Best Friends, Galaxy Sweeping Adventure, Internship, Space
Publisher: Misty Dais
Published: 2020-06-16T20:00:00+00:00


Chapter 10

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The park was an oasis in the middle of the space station. The walls of the corridor we were walking down began to slowly become murals of buildings. Further along the murals began to mesh into holoscreens of a city sidewalk. I wasn't quite sure at what point the holoscreens had ended, as it suddenly dawned on me that the buildings on either side of me weren't 3D holovideo images anymore, but were actual buildings. Apartment buildings had sprung up around me, complete with people sitting out on their balconies. The corridor floor turned from white tiles into cobblestones. The cobblestones still crunched under our feet generating hydro as we walked. The hallway - or roadway - grew wider and now had median gardens growing in the centre of the road to direct traffic. I looked around for what traffic they could be directing, as we were in a space station still. Down one of the side streets I saw a golf-hover turning around a corner. The apartment buildings gave way to row houses in pale colours with big bay windows. They even had cute little mailboxes. I wondered if the mailboxes were decorative or if they had actual mail delivery. I've never received real mail. The closest I had come to getting an actual letter was the Youth Corps admission embossed papers the courier had delivered. I said as much to Noah and asked him if he had ever gotten real mail. Like a letter or a card, not a package. He blushed, "yeah, after the last Galympics I got a lot of fan mail. An assistant for the team opened it all for me before handing it over.” His blush crept into his dimples. "And when I was little I'd get a birthday card from my grandma.”

I looked away from his dimples and up to the sky that was even higher away than the ceiling in The Seven Bays. Covering the ceiling was a holoscreen so clear, that if I hadn't know that I was in a space station, I would have sworn that there was real clouds drifting across a sunny sky. Some of the clouds even had a tinge of grey.

The hint of green at the end of the road expanded the closer we got to it. When we reached the street's dead end we spilled onto a set of stone stairs that led down to a park. Row houses fenced each side of the park. It wasn't what I expected when I pictured a space station in the hinterlands with a seven skull warning where you could buy anything. A canal weaved down the centre of the park, complete with little waterfalls. Noah's "Wow" summed up my feelings too. Tented booths, put up for the art show, bordered the pathway through the park.

We had agreed to meet the others at the food area, as that was the only place we thought for sure would be at the art show. I hoped the food was edible.



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