Flightsuit - fiction kindle ebook marketing by Tom Deaderick
Growing
up poor in a virtual era isolated 14 year-old Leo. The others were
immersed in their digital world and Leo knew almost nothing about it.
He lived an upside-down life, left-behind and trapped in the physical
world as the rest moved on.
Alone,
he explores miles of wilderness bounded by the Nolichucky River and
encircling Appalachian mountain ridges of Bumpas Cove, Tennessee.
Beyond the last broken and tilted pieces of a crumbling asphalt road, he
discovers the abandoned village where Iron Mountain's mine workers once
lived. He walks inside empty houses and mine works searching for toys
and relics of the families that lived there decades before. In this
place, being alone didn't make him feel bad. It felt natural being
alone here, as if the entire valley was for him.
He
returns daily, walking the mountains and hills looking for forgotten
things. Crawling through a streambed with a tunnel of long blackberry
briars arching overhead, he finds something that isn't covered with
rust. It shines white in the scattered shadows. Freed of muck and
mire, the glass-metal sleeve is as light as plastic. Leo has never seen
anything like it. He slides his arm into the sleeve, but before his
fingers can reach down into the two long flat fingers, a sharp hook
locks into his arm.
Leo
is forced to find other scattered pieces, assembling a full
flightsuit. Once restored, it prepares for a thousand light-year return
trip with Leo trapped inside, as it waits for its alien pilot to be
restored into Leo's mind.