But as to whether or not it was in the right direction that was anybody’s guess. Radford had given their last position as east-northeast of Guam. Even though they had drifted a lot since that reading, they were following the compass west-southwest. It seemed the only course. “I don’t know,” Luk...
“Hey, Zach!” “How’s it going, man?” I jumped down to the tarmac of the school’s driveway. It was a beautiful September day. This was my time—eighth grade, captain of the football and soccer teams, Big Man on Campus. After two years of looking up to other people, I’d finally made it to the point w...
A single ray of tropical sunlight caught the left half of Ian Sikorsky’s glasses. Carefully, the boy angled the lens to reflect the intensified beam onto the pile of leaves on the sand in front of him. There was a breathless silence. Then “It’s not burning,” Charla observed, worried. “The leave...
Mangosteens. Will Greenfield sat up on his raft, working with a knife to cut open a mountain of the plum-sized fruit. Mangosteens! In the world of naming foods, who had come up with that one? It sounded like a partner in his father’s law firm: Berkowitz, Greenfield, and Mangosteen. They were good...