I was flying to Chicago to meet a friend. She had needed a date for a work function. She felt the company would have frowned at her girlfriend coming. So I was the lucky guy who got to spend the weekend with her. But first I had to get there. I had bought my ticket awhile ago. Southwest. They flew out of the local airport and direct to Chicago. She was goin...
A woman in a kimono with a painted white face stepped out of Zerzinski's place just as I arrived. She smiled briefly in greeting, and opened a parasol above her head, before descending the stairs. Zerzinski seemed happy. I don't know why that even seemed notable, but he smiled without any provocation as I entered the house. Soon enough we were sitting ac...
There I was at 31,000 feet, I never would have thought this could happen, especially to me. If this didn't happen to me I would have thought the story was bullshit. But there I was in flight from Seattle, WA to San Francisco, CA. I was the Captain of the flight; it was a small commuter type turboprop airplane that holds approximately 30 passengers, while at...
I have no idea about transatlantic flights; Nor what US passport control is like, so bear with me if I've screwed up, they're not important to the story. --- Half an hour into the flight and I was bored. I'd seen the film on offer and had long ago found that I couldn't read whilst flying. I began to look around at the other passengers. My eye was drawn to...
Nikki's POV I hurried out of the transportation the airline provided for all in-flight crew members that had to travel back and forth from the airport, and walked quickly to catch my flight. Sometimes being on reserve or on-call was a bitchy thing to be on, especially when I had to wake up to catch a flight that a more senior flight attendant couldn't show...
This new story takes place after the survey of the Dyson Sphere in Lt. Gordon's Transformation. As that work is now in preparation for publishing, I am starting this one with the same changes. There are no more references to Star Trek in anyway. The governing body of the galaxy is the Galactic Alliance. All ships are Galactic Star Ships, GSS. Stardates have...
Hank Murphy scanned the sky for the hundredth time in the last fifteen minutes. The sky was clear except for the four North American FJ-4 Fury jets far below and in front of his plane. He scanned the sky again, then concentrated his search to the north. That is where any playmates were likely to come from. He saw a slight glimmer out to the north, low. He c...
Here is something I wrote whilst recovering from recent surgery. I hope you like it! Greg twisted his solid six foot frame in his airline seat, putting his feet in the aisle to allow the grey haired lady, to whom he'd given his allocated window seat, to take her fourth trip to the restroom in three hours. Each time, she had managed to trample on his feet...
I have to say that my two weeks in Hawaii sure as hell didn't go the way I planned them. Never did get out to see those big ships sunk in the harbor. I did make it to the zoo down on the end of the main drag, and had a couple of different experiences on the Big Island. The go-around with Tonya and Sandra was fun, still. All I really got out of the trip was...
He looks at his watch as he waits, somewhat patiently for her to arrive. They were to meet at 1 pm to catch a flight to London. His stomach already in knots in anticipation of the flight. This was not helping to ease the upset he felt. "Where could she be?" he pondered. Watching the line develop to head through security, seeing the minutes tick away. Stan...