This is a short story the first half of which (the 'symbolic' part) I wrote quite a few years ago. About a month ago I roughly doubled it in word count, adding the 'sci-fi' part. They are divided by a *** . In the second part I basically describe 'paradise' itself the way I have imagined it. ...

The space campers of the future find themselves crash-landed on a remote planet. Will this group of students be able to find a way off the planet. The authors of this are the Digital Information Technology Classes of Mr. Changuris at a high school in Tampa, Florida done through distance learni...