Stan Teasley and His Trip to Outer Space!

By Manrique Easley

At ten years old Stan Teasley has already published two books. He thought they would be as popular as the Harry Potter books, but they were not. At least on earth, they were not. When the plane that he, his dad, and some other interesting kids are on is kidnapped by aliens, he finds out that his books on this alien planet are just as popular as the Harry Potter books are on earth. In fact, the aliens on this planet have made movies about both of his books and the movies are the hottest thing going on the planet.

Stan is super famous on the planet Matonian so you would think that he would want to stay for a while and enjoy his time there. However, the planet has a dictator as a King and to Stan it is something not right about this King and something not right about this planet.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Jul 16, 2021
• ISBN: 9781663224590

Manrique Easley

(Stun) Manrique Easley currently works as a senior leader for a fortune 20 company. He is the author of 3 previous books. One of them being another children’s book called Robert, The Video Game Boy. He holds a bachelor’s degree and an MBA from the University of Memphis. He enjoys writing, sports, and spending time with his family.

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iUniverse rev. date: 07/12/2021

Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty One

Chapter Twenty Two

Chapter Twenty Three

Chapter Twenty Four

Chapter Twenty Five

Chapter Twenty Six

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CHAPTER

One

S TAN TEASLEY WAS not your ordinary kid and this was definitely not your ordinary day. Stan was seating in a seat that he never ever thought that he would be seating in. He was about to take a trip that he never ever thought that he would be taking. You see Stan was seating in a seat with his seat belt fasten tightly around him on an airplane that was headed to outer space. Yes, I did say to outer space, but before I tell you how and why Stan was going to outer space. Let me tell you why Stan was not your ordinary kid.

Stan was ten years old. At the age of eight, Stan had written his first book. The book was of course a children’s book. It was a fantasy book. It was about a boy that traveled around space with his astronaut dad. At the age of nine, Stan completed his second book about this boy and his dad.

Stan’s dad’s name was Leo. He was Stan’s biggest fan and also Stan’s biggest influence. When I say Stan’s biggest influence, I mean that the reason that Stan started writing in the first place was because of his dad. Leo was a writer himself. At one time a few years back, Leo had had written a book that was a best seller. He had gotten somewhat famous from this one book. He had also made a lot of money off of this one book.

After Stan’s dad’s one book hit wonder, he never was lucky enough to write another book that was a best seller. Fortunately, he didn’t blow the money on just fast cars and hot vacation spots. He was smart with his money. He took some of his money and started his own publishing company. The featured writer of the company was his son Stan. Now Leo’s main goal in life was to make his son a world famous writer. So when Leo heard from a business acquaintance that a rich millionaire had invented a plane that could fly to outer space and that the rich millionaire was trying to find interesting people to ride on the first flight to outer space, Leo jumped at the chance of him and his son getting on the plane. The plane was only going to fly out far enough to be considered in space. Then it was going to turn around and come back to earth and land. Leo figured that this was safe. He also liked the fact that it didn’t require the passengers to do any astronaut training. Leo’s wife and Stan’s mom was really concerned and didn’t want her son or her husband to fly on this plane going to outer space. Leo convinced her it was safe and she hesitantly agreed.

The reason that Leo wanted to get on the plane so bad is because Stan’s first two books had not sold that well. Leo thought that his son’s books were great. He didn’t understand why they were not selling. He knew that a flight like this would draw tons of publicity from the media. He knew that the people on this flight would get a lot of attention from television news shows, the internet, podcast, newspapers, and magazines. He felt that if he and his son got a lot of attention from this, that this would allow him to talk about his publishing company and about his son’s books. Leo felt that this was just the publicity that he and his son needed for his company and for his son’s books to blow up and for them to become rich and famous.

At first Leo was worried because he thought that it was going to be very hard to get a couple of seats on the plane. However, a lot of people were afraid to take the flight because they were afraid of the risk. They were afraid because the government had a space program and on two occasions in the past the aircraft had crashed and killed everyone on the planes. Since most people were worried about this and scared that this plane might crash and kill everybody on it, Leo and his son were able to get seats on the plane. However, the risks made Stan nervous like many others were and he really didn’t want to go. In fact, he was flat out scared like everyone else and it didn’t help things that his friends kept reminding him of the other planes that had crashed. Even though Stan was scared and very nervous, he tried to suck it up and be brave in front of his dad. He tried to make it seem like he was excited about going on the flight. He did this because he knew that his dad was very excited about the plane ride and he didn’t want to disappoint him.

As Stan sat on the plane, his heart raced and his stomach made noises that he didn’t even know his stomach could make.

Okay everyone, please get ready for takeoff, a voice over the intercom said. A few seconds later, a stewardess walked by and looked over to make sure that Stan and his dad had their seat belts on. Stan was seating in the aisle seat so the stewardess looked at him first to see if he had his seat belt on. She then looked over at Stan’s dad who was sitting by the window to make sure that he had his seat belt on too.

After the stewardess walked by, Leo looked over at Stan and didn’t say anything. He just smiled at him. He then patted him on the head lovingly and turned back around and looked out of the window. Stan wondered to himself if his dad was nervous and scared like he was. He figured that he wasn’t because he didn’t look nervous, scared, or anything like that. To Stan his dad just looked like he was about to go on a regular trip.

As Stan looked at his dad, he started thinking about his mom and how she looked when he last saw her. He had seen her at the airport before they had left, and she had given him a hug and a kiss. When he looked into her face, she looked like she was very nervous and scared. She looked like she was about to cry. This made him even more nervous and worried.

As Stan was thinking about his mom, the plane started moving. It moved slowly at first. It then started going faster and faster until it lifted off the ground and went up into the air. He had flown on a plane on several occasions before and this lift off was really no different than the ones he had been on in the past. However, he knew that this one was different because he was going to outer space and there was no turning back now.

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CHAPTER

Two

K ENNEDY FORD WAS the rich millionaire who along with his team invented the plane that could fly out to space. Kennedy Ford was not only rich, but he was from a famous family. You would often see a picture of him or one of his family members in one of the national tabloids because the media was always following him and his family around all the time and taking pictures of them.

He was born into wealth and his family was one of those families who had been rich for as long as anyone could remember. Kennedy had always been real smart, but he felt that during his first 40 years of living that he had never done anything that would distinguish him from the rest of his wealthy family. He was really excited now because since he had invented this plane, he was no longer known as just one of the Ford family members. He was now known as Kennedy Ford the genius who invented the plane that could fly out to space.

Kennedy knew that this was a big deal. He knew that he was going to get a lot of media coverage. He wanted this to be as big of an event as he could make it. His initial plan was to get the most famous people that he could get to fly on the plane. He thought that this was going to be easy at first. He thought that he would be able to get A list stars such as mega TV stars, famous politicians, or famous athletes. However, people were scared to volunteer to fly on Kennedy’s plane because there had been a couple of crashes in the government’s space program. They felt that if the government had crashes in the past, then why would his aircraft be any safer.

Kennedy tried his best to convince the so called A list stars that his plane would be safe. He wasn’t able to get the A list stars, but he finally did get enough volunteers to fill up the seats on his plane. The plane was a pretty big plane and it was the size of a typical jet at an airport. Ordinarily the plane would have seated 60 plus people, but it was made differently. The plane didn’t have as many seats because specialized equipment and additional motors took up some of the ordinary seating space. So