Just Beyond The Clouds
Chapter One
The eighteen adult students at the front of the classroom were a
happy, ragtag group, mostly short and squatty, with sturdy necks and
squinty eyes. All but two wore thick glasses. Their voices mingled
in a loud cacophony of raucous laughter, genuine confusion, and
boisterous verbal expression.
"Teacher!" The one named Gus took a step forward, lowered his brow,
and pointed to the student beside him. "He wants the bus to the
Canadian Rockies." Gus rolled his eyes. He gestured dramatically
toward the window. "The buses out there go to the Colorado Rockies."
He tossed both his hands in the air. "Could you tell him, Teacher?"
"Gus is right." Twenty-six-year-old Elle Dalton-teacher, mentor,
encourager, friend-looked out the window. "Those are the Colorado
Rockies. But our ... read full excerpt from Just Beyond the Clouds ebook
