Young Adult Science Fiction
Approx 50,000 Words

Synopsis

Kenny is the last of a line descended from Mogens Jensen, the colony's founder who discovered how to levitate and made that knowledge public. Three hundred years after the colony's founding, society has evolved into two sharply divided classes: those who float, and those who walk. At the testing Kenny discovers that he can't levitate.

Not being able to levitate casts his family to the lower class of Walkers. To avoid the brainwash that accompanies the downgrade, Kenny escapes with the help of a cousin, long banished as a walker.

During his escape, he discovers that there is no running away -- from his problems, from his country's -- and that to fly he has to be true to himself and to the voice within him. And by doing that, he can save himself, free the walkers, and avert a looming war.