Stratos

Intro

intro

i only have one pair of shoes, they are old,ripped ,and half a size to small. luckily i haven't grown much since i was 13.i live in an old abandon building in old Chicago Illinois. i live with my mom and little brother calico. however don't forget the 30 other homeless families living in the same building.we get new families every day ,i myself have been here since i was eight, seven years. the building is a 30 story building. we believe it was an old office building. my life wasn't always like this, when i was just eight i had a house, my own bedroom, and so many shoes that i had some three sizes to big so i could grow into them!! one day that all changed... i went to Montana for a couple weeks with my good friend. when i came back my parents were in a fight... they were yelling and screaming, i think my dad threw a few punches also. then before i knew it, he was gone, my dad left my mom and calico by our selfs. i had and older sister also. but he took her, of course. i never saw them again. i remember everything about that night... the cold crisp air, the smell of coal in the fire place, the the white fluffy snow falling to the earth. funny, how when ever it snows, it reminds me of life. every life is a little different in its special way, from color of skin, to the pitch of your voice everyone is different. some are evil, some are kind. my mom supported us for a little while but then the unthinkable happened... my mom got polio, its year 2201 and everyone thought that polio was eradicated but that is not true. my mom was the first out of hundreds of people. there was an outbreak, my mom was paralyzed from the neck down. they 'fixed' polio again. but my mom couldn't work, she was confined to a metal bed that surrounded her body completely ,fixed with medicine and all of this stuff, its like a little hospital room on wheels. its hundreds of pounds so there is no point in moving it. it was thousands of dollars for that burden, so we sold the house, the money went by in a couple of months. thousands of dollars, yet no cure. its now been seven years since my life so abruptly changed. it is now year 2208.