A Fantastic Holiday Season: The Gift Of Stories - Plot & Excerpts
Dread welled up inside of Virginia, tightening her stomach until she thought she might vomit. She’d tried to distract herself from the looming date, but nothing worked.The school bus is here.Virginia blinked to turn off the vid playing on her retinal display. She hadn’t been paying attention to it anyway.“Thank you, Auntie,” Virginia subvocalized to her family AI as the bright yellow school lev glided up to the bus stop.You’re welcome, sweetie. Auntie’s voice was a pleasant, female voice in Virginia’s head that could be heard over nearly any external sound.Nervously, Virginia tucked her mousy brown hair behind her ears and glanced at the other students. Occasionally they teased her for being polite to her AI, but Virginia was sure Auntie’s feelings were real, no matter what everyone else said. Fortunately, the kids around her still had distant expressions and a dim purple glow in their eyes, indicating they were engaged on the InfoSphere.After horribly bruising her shin by missing the step up into the lev when she was young, Virginia always shut her own “eyes”
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