Outbound

Growing up alone in an endless sea of people waiting for handouts is bad enough, but finding out everything he believes in is a lie was the final straw.Darrian Kraig thought he was winning the ultimate prize a fresh chance at a brand new life on a new world, far away from the poverty and suffering of Earth, far away from the nightmare that had become his reality.But when the truth is revealed in a sadistic game of bait and switch, Kraig cant roll with the punches any more.Freedom seems a world away, but the determination of a single man to finally experience the one thing he has ever hoped for, the one forbidden fruit just out of reach, brings about a chain reaction that could be the beginning of the end

Ted Atchley, Jr. is an award-winning journalist who currently teaches journalism and English at Northern Oklahoma College in Tonkawa, Oklahoma. He lives with his wife Ramona, and has a son Joshua and stepdaughter Tiffanie.