Sixty-One Before Sunrise

On the morning of Cappadocia's biggest balloon festival, fourteen-year-old Elif finds an unsigned warning on her crew clipboard: a burner is wrong, and a balloon must not fly. With ninety minutes until sunrise and no adult willing to listen, she races across the dark launch fields to find the right basket before it leaves the ground. But the answer has been in front of her the whole time, just upside down. Chapters: 00:00 The Note 01:17 Nobody Listens 02:21 Across the Field 03:21 Basket Nineteen 04:20 The Pocket 05:11 The Handwriting 06:05 The Scrapyard Box 07:05 Upside Down 07:53 The Confession 08:57 The Race Back 09:56 Speaking Up 10:55 The Test 11:46 The Reckoning 12:38 Right Way Up Made by Vin-G — free tools and apps at https://vin-g.com