Sean Kennedy - Wings of Equity

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the authors imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

Wings of Equity

Copyright 2010 by Sean Kennedy

Cover Design by Catt Ford

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ISBN: 978-1-61581-570-8

Printed in the United States of America

First Edition

July, 2010

eBook edition available

eBook ISBN: 978-1-61581-571-5

For Francesca and Diana,

who asked for the likes of

Bart and Jazille to be created.

And for Jules,

who helped take them further.

Wings of Equity

FROM the age of six, Ezra Kneebone knew he was meant to live his life in the skies. All it had taken was one visit with his parents to a special skyshow put on by the local council, in which the newest and oldest of all manner of aircraft were on display both on the ground and above the clouds.

He remembered being placed upon his fathers shoulders, as if those extra inches of height would enable him to reach up and touch the bellies of the craft as they flew overhead.

I dont know why anybody would want to go up in one of those things, his mother had said, shivering at just the thought of it.

I dont know, Ezras father had said. It could be fun. What do you think, Ezra?

And Ezra had looked back up at the vehicles that seemed to promise the same freedom offered to the birds that until this time had been denied to man. What person wouldnt want to be able to take to the skies, with all the promise of that everlasting expanse? Even at his young age, Ezra could understand that feeling, even if he couldnt put it into words with such eloquence.

If I go up there, he told his parents, I wont ever come down.