Camp College: A Story of the Future
By John Walters
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In the near future, as societies continue to erode and the gap between rich and poor widens, inexpensive college camps spring up around the country as an alternative form of higher education. At one such camp, a partially dysfunctional veteran and a woman alienated from her family meet and attempt to make sense out of the rapidly changing world.
John Walters
John Walters recently returned to the United States after thirty-five years abroad. He lives in Seattle, Washington. He attended the 1973 Clarion West science fiction writing workshop and is a member of Science Fiction Writers of America. He writes mainstream fiction, science fiction and fantasy, and memoirs of his wanderings around the world.
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Camp College - John Walters
Camp College
By
John Walters
Published by Astaria Books
Copyright 2018 by John Walters
All rights reserved. No portion may be copied, other than brief passages for review purposes, without permission of the author.
This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons places or events - except those in the public domain - is purely coincidental.
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Camp College
Stuart arrived at Evergreen College Camp in the midst of a Pacific Northwest downpour. Although the windshield wipers on his rusty but reliable VW bus were going full speed, he still almost missed the turnoff to the gravel driveway due to decreased visibility. The drive took a loop first to the left and then to the right through dripping, towering cedars and then he came into the clearing.
The camp was in a long open field overlooking Hood Canal. If the day had been clear, the Olympic Mountains would have been visible across the water, but low clouds obscured all but the nearest foothills on the far shore. Hood Canal Bridge was vaguely discernible far off to the right through the mists and rainfall.
Along the shallow cliff fronting the water sat a row of buildings. First was the reception/office/medical clinic, next was the mess hall/library, and finally there were three identical lecture halls one after the other. Before the buildings in a vast network of raised slat sidewalks, platforms, and electrical hookups was the student campground. Sprouting from intersections in the matrix were the communal restrooms. A number of students with campers, trailers, or tents had already arrived and were setting up their living quarters.
A sign in the gravel parking area pointed left for student parking and right for temporary and guest parking in front of the office. Stuart turned right and pulled into an empty slot.
After Stuart wiped his muddy feet on the already-filthy mat and entered the chaotic reception area, bureaucracy commenced.
Three hours later, class schedule, campground rules, and campsite assignment in hand, Stuart emerged, officially registered. Following the soggy gravel track, stopping often to scan a map of the camp's grid pattern, he found his designated slot, backed the van into it, and pushed down the parking brake. After pausing only a moment to listen to the hard drumming of the rain on the van's roof, he uncoiled the hookup wire, went outside into the torrent, and plugged one end of the wire into the van and the other into the platform connection. He then threaded an Ethernet cable out the corner of a window where the rubber border would insulate from leaks and hardwired into the college's Internet network.
Only then did he reach into the mini-fridge for a beer, pop it open, sit at the collapsible table, relax,