Skybridge Express

A kid stows away on a fantastical sky-train that travels between floating cities in the clouds. Navigate strange passengers, avoid the conductor, and decide whether to go home or stay among the sky cities forever.

Mira lived in the last house on Cliffside Row, the one that dangled so close to the edge of Greystone City that you could look straight down and see nothing but clouds. She was twelve years old, loved fixing broken radios, and had never once left the city limits.

'One day,' she would whisper to her bedroom window. 'One day I'm getting on that thing.'

Every evening at six o'clock, the Skybridge Express roared past Greystone on its way to somewhere else. The train floated on magnetic rails that stretched between the floating cities, humming with blue light.

Mira always watched it from her window, wondering what it would be like to ride it just once. 'Just once,' she murmured tonight, fingers pressed against the cold glass. 'Just once would be enough.'