Rocket Summer: Rocket Series, #1

By D.W. Patterson

Rocket Summer: A Short Story

 

Summertime is a special time for young boys. Especially if they have a passion for rockets and space. Jack's summer began with a disappointing failure: the first mission to Mars failed, the rocket exploded. Next, another disappointment, the bottle rocket Jack was testing exploded and he was grounded. Would he miss the upcoming bottle rocket challenge? Was this the end of his summer?

 

Rocket Summer is the first short story in the author's Manifold Earth Universe: Rocket Series. Beginning in the near future and extending into the far future, the Manifold Earth Universe extrapolates future humanity's struggles, failures, and successes in moving into the vast cosmos.

 

Hard Science Fiction - Old School.

• Language: English
• Publisher: D.W. Patterson
• Release date: Jan 20, 2024
• ISBN: 9798215035269

Book preview

To Sarah

ROCKET SUMMER

Williams' Farm

Hell's Hollow Road

North Georgia, USA

Jack liked to sit just inside the edge of the forest and look out on the farm's pasture. Before baling, the grass was as high as a nine year old boy sitting cross-legged, and when the wind blew the waves of grass looked like an ocean to such a boy. Jack had never been to the ocean but he imagined it something like a windy day crossing the pasture.

The farm was nestled in a closed valley surrounded by low mountains, some people called the mountains, hills, and the valley, a hollow, but to Jack they were mountains and valley. He looked up at the peak called Muletop across the pasture and thought that anyone who thought it a hill instead of a mountain should try to climb it.

Deep in such thought he didn't hear his dad the first time he called but he heard him the second time.

Jack come on, said his dad, it's about time, the live-stream's starting.