The sky above us seems huge, vast. It’s clear and crisp and visibility is so good that, when I look up, I feel like I’m staring at an inverted, endless ocean. I’m sure the blue...

Don’t let me lose myself.

He had never seen the ocean before; he knew it only as the featureless blue void between the detailed continents on his father’s old globe. But now he saw that it was anything but featureless;...