Slowly at first, and then gaining speed, he began to unfold the document. One page doubled into two. Two expanded into four. The rectangle of paper seeped out across the floor as Hayden began to have to crawl to keep unfolding it, pressing its seams and creases flat. Finally, he flipped the last fold and sat back on his haunches. The pages that, folded back to back, had made up one fat volume, laid flat, formed a paper carpet more than half the size of the room. The shapes of identical numbers matching up in long rows became vertical and horizontal lines, a perfect, printed net.
Latitude and longitude.
It was a map.
About the Author
Courtney Grace Powers has been cramming notebooks full of stories since she was six years old and determined to see her short stories about flying unicorns and vampire princes adapted to the big screen. Although she has since decided to leave the unicorns and vampires on the shelf, science-fiction and fantasy stories have retained a special place in her heart, along with theatre, chai tea, bomber jackets, and adventuring.
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Table of Contents
Copyright
Dedication
I The Unwilling Veterans of the Emathia Tea Party
II A Blue (No, Grey) Sky
III Reece Sheppard, Captain Umbrella
IV What the Birds Knew First
V The Cost of Doing Something Great
VI Problems with Pudding
VII Moots, Shrews, and Little Red Boots
VIII Mighty Big Engine Rats
IX Owon to the Rescue (If He Doesn’t Kill You First)
X Welcome to Leto City, Now Go Away
XI Evacuation Now, a Guidebook
XII When Cannibals Ain’t the Scariest Thing Around
XIII What Means Me
XIV The Battle of Red Pool, L.F. 1296
XV Good Sterling Eve to All Except Owon
XVI The Land of No Princesses
XVII Fairy Lights
XVIII Theft!
XIX Scarlet Ashdown, Whim-Checker
XX The Enviable Turtle Blue
XXI Over the Edge and Beyond
XXII The Death of Po Trimble
XXIII Being Fine
XXIV We’re All Crazies Here
XXV It’s Nice to Meet You, Nivy Noemie
XXVI Truth Be Told
XXVII Radioactive
Epilogue
About the Author
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