04/11/2022
Elysium (a science fiction story)
Written by: Min Lee
A man-made heaven orbits earth.
A man walking among earth that fights for a living Looks up in the air to see a floating white circular disk
It's Elysium in the sky flying high above the earth.
Elysium is here to levitate up the next generation to live on the man-made heaven floating above earth.
A man Begs and begs and begs on bended knee to be let in
Can I come with? please I beg of you.
I have nothing but this mind and I think I can make anything happen on Elysium.
The two Sirs that are guards of Elysium judge him,
Both them close their eyes and think about the future of what will happen if they let this man a Fighter in.
They say he will work.
They let him in
They show him around and he's placed in a small one room studio apartment.
He finds the lights turn on automatically after
they say Mark hello, hello he says,
he looks around and says who said this?
This is your Home autobot Airee.
Welcome Home Mark.
Welcome home roommate Won Ton, he's arrived from Chinwa China, a remote village of 125 people.
Airee wants to know what time you would like to set your morning wake up alarm for.
We don't have work.
We just arrived here in Elysium.
Rise and shine at 8am we'll send up work Director Rober.
Work Director Rober dressed in Long White trench coat and white suit including white bow tie,
walks through the automatic door of the Studio apartment of Mark and Won ton.
Work director Rober presses a his hand against the door and he can see through what was a white door which is now a glass door of the bedroom door
Won and Mark and they are both sleeping so he presses a button that has sunrise button,
Exciting classical music roars on dun dun,
and the curtains rise up and to show the blazing sun coming in bright in through the window.
Dear god says Mark
My Mama says Won Ton
8am says the Airee their studio home autobot, Your meeting time with Work Director Rober
We've placed you in work in CoTop, You'll be entering in yile data tablets in the stationary Office Engine computers.
So that day he got out of his Studio apartment home
and Mark went up the esclator toward the bright sunlight toward the skylight window sun roof with the sun shining through brightly.
One day he sees a man holding the hand of a little boy on the conveyer belt sidewalk and him saying dad no dad no, don't go up there you don't what's up there dad,
what if you never come back dad, I'll be back by 5:30pm right down here is where we'll meet.
Won ton went left went up the esclator too Won ton went left
and I Mark went right side of the top of the esclators when reached the brightest point of the skydeck.
I never did see Won Ton after that one day of work
you see he reunited with his parents on his way back home from work when he saw his Mother cleaning the steps of the esclator
he and his mother ran into his father painting a mural on the walls of the conveyer belt sidewalk hallway.
They all decided to go back down to earth To paint murals and designs on sidewalks,
each sqaure of the sidewalk was like a canvas for them
They also went back to live back back on earth in their 3 bedroom home on earth that all three of them left behind.
Mark on the other day in day out worked at CoTop, the work was mimimal effort but the pay was pretty decent amount..............
There were people that worked there at Cotop but none of us talked except one day a lady approached me at my desk HotDog for $2 for lunch.
Mark said sure Got one hot dog bit into it twice and it was in his mouth gone.
Then he asked for another 2 he reached in his pocket got out $4. Two Please. Thanks and he bit into it this time little by little.
He works among the crowds of workers simply because he asked if he could work there and realizes it's not so easy life in Elysium
...........he has memories of working here and there and giving up because the pay is so low down below on the ground of the earth
..........Here at Elysium it's the same thing he has to work long hours but he realizes he just has to ask and he gets opportunity an
when he asks he understands more instead of just assuming he's being blocked
he eventually gets a sales job for meals instead of sitting up in his office and entering in yile data tablets in the stationary Office Engine computers
He goes at first door to door at businesses and eventually comes across a man who's a Buddhist Monk who teaches him to sit quietly
The Monk suggests ask buddha whatever he needs answered and he does and 10 minutes later he starts talking to himself random ideas after ideas..............
He had the answer within him he just had to think about it
Then he knocks on doors after doors in Elysium and gets the door closed on him one after another
He is at his home in Elysium and he asks questions to buddha and he comes up with a solution finally............he writes it down on paper
he takes the sheet of paper with him to go door to door and he reads it and he gets a closed door after closed door
Then finally a woman answers the door and she shakes his hand he delivers boxes after boxes of food,
she delivers it to land down below Elysium where there are workers that farm the land and they pay her $4 for the meal.
He the first guy to enter Elysium from the ground earth level helps her deliver the meals and he gets his first $4.
He cries tears because the first $4 it is from his own mother who gives him the $4 who is now working the land down in ELysium that he forgot about and left behind to work hard but she does not live the luxury lifestyle that he's living...............
The woman he met going door to door eventually gets pregnant give birth on a Monday Morning.
The sun is rising and she smiles at the baby and the baby smiles back and winks and cries a single tear at the father who was the first man from earth down on the ground to go up to Elysium.
They all look at the sunrise, the mother raises the baby up to see the sunrise as they sit on earth no longer on elysium.
The baby starts crying and starts p*eing while being lifted up in the air like LionKing baby Simba...............
The the mother says all you had to do was ASK! Where is the bathroom toilet?
He says you didn't even have to ask, the earth is your toilet..................
Then showing earth from a distance in space with lots of water on earth.
