ASLEEP is a fantasy story set in modern day Atlanta. Adisa Summers doesn't

know her boyfriend, Micah Alexander, can fly. These two African American

teens seem like typical teenagers until one day a flash of lightning sends

a tree crashing down on Adisa and she is shocked to see Micah actually

flying to her rescue!

My eyes were showing me the impossible. Micah was flying straight at me.

But my mind kept rejecting the image. It froze me in place while it

struggled to make sense of the information hurtling toward me.

My inability to accept this reality short circuited my brain and locked on

the single impractical vision; Micah was in fact, incredibly,

incomprehensibly, impossibly flying to save me. In an instant, I was in

his arms.

My body registered the impact, jarring but protectively tucked beneath

him, my face looking up at the sky over his shoulder as we flew parallel

to the ground. I saw the tree descending fast now, bearing down on us. A

fraction of a scream escaped me before he shifted, positioning me

completely beneath his body, blocking my view just as the tree exploded

against his back in a deafening crescendo of sound.