One For All: Open Space Series, #6

By D.W. Patterson

One For All: A Short Story

The kids take up flying lessons. But these lessons aren't like planet-based flying where gravity rules. At the center of the spinning habitat there is no gravity and flying is personal as each one spreads his own wings in the light air a half mile up from the spinning floor of the habitat.

 

Sometimes it only takes a moment to make a choice that can change many lives. But that doesn't make the choice easy.

 

When an accident happens, thate moment arrives, what choice will one of the kids make?

One For All is a short story set in the future (2390s) and is the sixth story in the Future Chron Universe: Open Space Series.

The Open Space Series is a short story series set in the much larger Future Chron Universe which contains 33 volumes consisting of 9 novels, 1 short novel, 15 novellas, and 8 short stories.

 

Open Space Series suggested reading order:

 

Open Space: A Short Story

The Old World: A Short Story

Insurrect: A Short Story

Second Beam: Short Story

All For One: A Short Story

One For All: A Short Story

Shot Gun: A Short Story

Allison: A Short Story

 

Hard Science Fiction – Old School.

Human-Generated-Content.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Future Chron Publishing
• Release date: Mar 20, 2024
• ISBN: 9798223587583

Book preview

To Sarah

CHAPTER 1

Jett hadn't been with the boys much since the three had transferred into the 8b math class. She saw them only on weekends and even then they were so obsessed with their math teacher harassing them that it was all they would talk about.

Jett had gotten tired of their monomania and had gone off on her own. She had joined a gliding club that met on Saturday afternoons at one of the non-rotating endcaps of the space habitat.

Gliding, that is flying a glider or wing-suit in the habitat, was not forbidden but not encouraged. Gliding along the axis of the habitat a half mile up from the surface was a pastime for many and sport for some. The wing-suits were not fixed-wing like on Earth but had deformable wings which was necessary since there wasn't a strong breeze in the habitat. But one had to be trained in using the wing-suits properly.

Now Jett, I want to show you how to flap the wings and how not to, said the flight instructor Thomas James. Now watch.

James began making a flapping motion. He went nowhere as his feet were in floor straps. On the downward stroke he angled the leading edge of the wing up and then down as he passed through the horizontal. On the upward stroke he pivoted the wing to almost vertical. All this was done in a non-exaggerated circular motion.

After a few times he stopped.

Now I want you to describe to me what you just saw.

Jett then described the motion exactly. James was pleased.

I think you may be the first student I ever had that described the motion correctly the first time. Congratulations. Now you use your wings and show me how you do it.

Jett then started to