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I accidently wrote the 5th chapter in 3PoV instead of 1. I just reposted in 1PoV. This past week I had injections to fix my Dupuytrens, is a condition where a finger is bent and cannot be straighten. I ended up with injections in fingers and palm of my hand. Plus I had a twelve hour drive each way to get to the Doctor. That is my story and I am sticking to it. Frankly I don't know how I got anything posted. Sorry for the confusion and many thanks to those that pointed it out.
Ed

As several readers have pointed out, the Heinlein story was Tunnel in the Sky. Farmer in the sky was another book. Blame it on relying on 50 plus year old memories instead of fact checking on the internet.

A stobor was an unknown, unforeseeable nasty beast in a story, by Robert Heinlein, Farmer in the Sky. It was a very popular young adult book in the 1950's. I have made mention of books that my protagonist was reading and giving hints without writing the title. That one was to deep, almost sorry about that. :)
Ed

One email got my attention today, it was mentioned that at times my stories read like an outline. They do not bring you into the now. Even more telling is my greatest critics comment (My wife),she likes to visualize the story as she goes. She has to work to hard for most of my people to come alive. From Chapter 4 on I hope you will see an improvement. I only took up writing three weeks ago. This was a result of a long driving trip where I started to make up and share the story with my wife. She challenged me to write it down. I think she is working on the idle hands are the devils tools since I am taking the winter off.

An Anon reader pointed out that in the Summer Vacation story I had Rick flying on a Boeing 707. They did not come out till October of 1958 and that was with PanAm.

That was not a critical point to the story so I did not check. Shame on me. For the record after checking Eastern never owned any 707'2. They were DC 8 or 1011's. Double shame on me because I fly Eastern a lot in the late 60's and until they closed in 1991. Thanks for the heads up.