Something in the Sky: First Book in the Lyle Kent Series
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Being a kid in the 21st century is hard in many ways and everyone has a story to tell. This is just one story about a person and it starts in 2008.
Lyle Kent is an average f
June A. Reynolds
You've got it. Born in Portland Oregon, June Reynolds has taught in public school and followed her many interests in history and folklore. She writes local history and has written for local newspapers for fifty years. She has two grown children, two stepchildren, and two grandchildren.She has worked with thousands of students over her forty-year career in reading, writing, drama, and computer studies.
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Something in the Sky: First Book in the Lyle Kent Series
Copyright © 2024 by June A. Reynolds
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Something in the Sky
In His Own Words: Lyle Kent
Losing It
The Bad News
On the Road
A New State
Walking to Middleton
Getting Settled In
Firemen’s Chicken
Meeting Benny
Walking the Vineyard
Robbery in the Sky
Indian Farming
Up to Madge’s
Going to Crack in the Wall
More Trouble at School
Worst News Ever
The Nature of Things
Star High School
My New Computer
First Assignment: Story of a Place
A Big Black Cloud
Keeping Up Appearances
The Story of a Place
Jacking the Goods
Taking Off
To the Southwest
Back on the Road
The Science of Survival
The End of the Line
Bus Station
Back on the Road
007 in Phoenix
Back to the Cul-de-sac
Thanksgiving Day
Buddy, Can You Spare a Quarter?
Jail
Interrogation Room
Not Thinking About the Past
Assignment Two Descriptive Story of a Place
Horse Line in the Desert by Lyle Kent
Incoming
The Bailout
Epilogue
Afterword
Introduction: Something in the Sky
He sat on the broken rubble of rock and stared out into the setting sun. There was something in the sky or maybe it was something in the air that was trying to communicate with him. You could see forever out here in the desert. That butte over there looked maybe a mile away, but on the map it was twenty miles. Even the stillness in the air was talking to him, and Lyle felt like this spot was where he wanted to stay forever. Blue sky was turning to purple and pink in every direction. He loved his life, although he was always a little nervous in the back of his head because of his father in Afghanistan.
The sun caught some high horsetail clouds floating off to the east and cast them in hot pink. Horsetail clouds meant a change in the weather. In Arizona it was not very common to have change. Every day seemed the same. The sunglow on the horizon hovered over the desert, hinting at more of a day, but it was a false promise, followed by an ever deepening of the dark.
Lyle jumped up from his perch and walked home in the dark. The light-colored rocks lining the trail guided his way off the hill and down into the subdivision lighted by high streetlamps.
In His Own Words: Lyle Kent
All the lights were on in my house. That seemed pretty unusual. Mom never kept any lights on unless there was someone in the room. That was the rule at our house: Turn off the light when you leave the room.
The place looked like a pyramid with a wide line of lights on the first floor, then less and less to the top. There was one light on in the attic! Oh cripes! Did Teddy lock himself in the bathroom again? Or maybe he decided to play hide-and-seek by himself. Or maybe Baby Mary fell off the bed? He always felt guilty when things like that happened, but it was impossible for him to be around every minute of the day to help. It was driving him crazy.
Unfortunately, things seemed to be even worse than that. There was a cop at the front door and several expensive-looking cars parked all over the place. A couple of neighbors were already on the scene, whispering to each other.
Uh, hi,
I said to the cop. Um, I’m Lyle and I live here.
Really?
The cop’s eyes bugged out. Well, just a minute.
He talked into his walkie-talkie on his shoulder. There’s a kid out here named Lyle. He says he lives in this house. Should I let him in?
There was dead air, then an electronic crackle. Roger that. Let him in.
So there I was, entering my house, awaiting certain doom.
Losing It
There was quite a crowd of people in the living room. Almost as many as there was the last time Dad left for Afghanistan. My mom was sitting in the middle of the couch bent over, weeping and sobbing. Baby Mary was sitting on the floor watching Mom with wide eyes, and four-year-old Teddy was sitting next to Mom not knowing what to do.
Mom, what is going on?
I rushed over and sat down next to her and held her clammy hand. Everyone else in the room just watched uncomfortably.
Oh, Lyle, we’ve lost the house! It’s being repossessed!
Mom, how did that happen?
We had lived there for five years, and we never had any problems before.
Well, remember when your dad and I got a second mortgage on the house?
She was looking at me expectantly, like I knew what she was talking about.
No, Mom. I’m a kid. I don’t know what you’re talking about.
Well, we got some money from the value of the house to hold us over until your father got his first paycheck, but I guess your dad didn’t pay the mortgage for a few months.
She shuddered. Now we have to move out of the house.
"How could this happen, Mom? That would be gobs of money, wouldn’t it? I mean, where is all that money now? I mean, did we really