41 Kilometers

Written By Gretchen Filart

News: The Halo Space delivers the ultimate flight experience, taking adventurous souls to 40 kilometers above space for five days onboard a strato-balloon. Minimal carbon emission, zero guilt for as low as €100,000. Forty kilometers — only a kilometer short of Gaza’s land size. For free people, 41 kilometers is a surreal flight to space. For Palestinians, home and a death sentence.

The Halo Space delivers the ultimate flight experience, taking souls to 40 kilometers above space. Where do lost Palestinian souls go? And where are the free people fighting for their flight to rightful space?

Gretchen Filart is a Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and essayist from the Philippines. Her works center on motherhood, love, healing, nature, and intersectionalities, two of which received distinction from Phoebe’s Spring Poetry Contest and Navigator’s Travel Writing Competition. Connect with her on Twitter, Instagram, and Bluesky via @gretchenfilart or her website, ourworldinwords.com. She’s usually friendly.

Gretchen Filart

Gretchen Filart is a Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and essayist from the Philippines. Her works center on motherhood, love, healing, nature, and intersectionalities, two of which received distinction from Phoebe’s Spring Poetry Contest and Navigator’s Travel Writing Competition. Connect with her on Twitter, Instagram, and Bluesky via @gretchenfilart or her website, ourworldinwords.com. She’s usually friendly.

http://www.ourworldinwords.com
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