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The Island in the Sky – Chapter 9
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The Island in the Sky – Chapter 8
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The Island in the Sky – Chapter 7
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The Island in the Sky – Chapter 6
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The Island in the Sky – Chapter 5
Listen. The astronaut thing, that’s easy, man. To become one, you need to get sixty-two miles off the ground. You don’t need to get to orbit, you don’t even need to be hanging up there all that long either. Just arc up, hit the point, and when you get back to ground: you’re technically an…
The Island in the Sky – Chapter 4
My dad glanced at my mom, then at me, and walked to the door to look through the peephole. His shoulders sagged. “The police,” he said. My mom looked to the balcony, but we were five floors up. There was nowhere to go. Dad slowly opened the door, and a short, pale man in a…
The Island in the Sky – Chapter 3
I chose to smack Just Rahim upside the head with a bat at the start of one of the most momentous weeks of the century. Some would say, maybe ever. Who’d have guessed? Inside David’s office, which he thankfully almost always forgot to lock, I drank down every piece of news. This was the week…
The Island in the Sky – Chapter 2
For the first two days we enjoyed the luxurious beds and powerful, hot showers. Auntie Lynn snuck us into the hotel’s cavernous and gleaming stainless steel tabled back kitchens late at night to eat, and we snacked from vending machines during the day. It was in the kitchens where Auntie Lynn, seated at a table…
The Island in the Sky – Chapter 1
Two weeks before I became an astronaut I had a lot of problems. And those problems all started with Just Rahim. People always tell you to stand up for yourself. That’s what my dad, Damien, told me. “Don’t let no man shove you around, Kadie,” he said to me once, somberly. “Because then they think…