Cosmic

Liam Digby is 12 years old and might be the youngest person to ever be launched into space. Currently, he talks into his phone, recording everything as he and four others aboard the rocket dubbed Infinite Possibility careen through space. Due to an error, it drifted out of orbit, and now Liam is certain that they’re all doomed. However, he hopes that his message will reach his parents somehow, and he (sort of) regrets lying his way into the space mission. He said he was going on a school trip, but instead took advantage of his extreme height to fake his way into the mission. The mission secretly took off from China.

Liam is surprised to find that in some sense he enjoys the experience, because even though he’s doomed, he gets to see the stars and planets in a whole new way. Unfortunately, Earth is nowhere to be seen, and one of the other passengers thinks that they may have gone through a black hole.

The narrative flashes back to the events that led up to his trip to space. The day Liam realizes he’s growing up is the day that he attends the fair with his class and goes on a ride called the Cosmic.