Secrets of the Universe

A hundred years ago, the majority of the American population probably wouldn't say that they lived under a giant metal dome. That was before the Crash.

Now, they all lived normal lives under the Shields. They went to school, they worked, they played video games and binge watched Netflix. Dante was on the baseball team. Mia gave her photographs to the school newspaper and Peter danced. Arlise was a writer and Digg was a reader, her perfect counterpart. They lived the same way she would imagine American teenagers used to live, and sometimes she could even forget that she was living under a giant metal dome. It even had retina display and replicated whatever kind of sky was on the schedule. On nights like that Saturday, the Sky Show was of the constellations over the Equator during the winter, according to Dante.

But they weren't real stars, a fact Arlise could never forget.