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Freefallby Damari Esqueda
I remember only two things from the first time I rode in an airplane. One: my mom took two dramamine that knocked her out, a precaution so her eardrum...
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The Red KiteMilo found a red kite tangled in the old mango tree behind his house. Its tail was torn, and one wooden stick had snapped. He almost threw it away, but something about its bright color made him carry it insid...
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My Gypsy Soulby Gail Brady
For as long as I can remember I have been fascinated with travel, perhaps a manifestation of my Celtic-Gypsy soul. Even in utero I was transported acr...
by Raymond Pun
From a museum library to a prison library, I’ve worked in all kinds of libraries. I’ve also traveled to many countries such as the U...
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Flight Divideby Chloe Olewitz
I try to make conversation with the furred woman who takes too long to arrange herself to my right in the window seat next to me, I fail. I reach down...
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My Mother’s Presence in the Universeby Lucy Corin
Some bored friend of mine had driven me to the airport and we talked about boredom. We felt it but remained skeptical about it defining our generation...
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Frida in Montolieuby Margaret O'Brien
“Bet you don’t know what they’re saying,” the Frenchman said to me in accented English as he clicked on the laptop that sat on...
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Right to Leftby Marsha Temlock
The tall thin man with the wispy white beard proceeded his wife down the aisle. He was schlepping two black suitcases and a round black hatbox; she gr...
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Flying Toward Mann’s Tadzio at Christmasby Tasha Cotter
When I read that Thomas Mann likely chose the name Tadzio because it held the word Tod, which means death, I felt satisfied, but then I noticed a gauz...
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My Czechoslovakian Plastic Surgeonby Tarn Wilson
He sat in the window seat, immersed in a magazine. I registered little about him other than he’d crossed his legs, he wore cuffed business slack...
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Expect the Internetby Stewart Sinclair
The commercial pilot has pretty well completed the transition from hero to robot that Roland Barthes explored in 1955 in his essay “The Jet-Man....
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Barely Airborneby Vincent Eaton
“Over there is your airplane, sir.” The Munich airport employee had checked my one-way ticket to Rome, then gestured to the bright tarmac...
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Airport Readingby Robby McChargue
Sunday, December 18, 2011 Returning home from Colorado Springs after a week visiting my parents, I find myself, as do all Delta customers, regardless...
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Other Menby Christopher Schaberg
It was 2002 and I was in the window seat next to a man who had the aisle seat. This was on a Canadair Regional Jet, which has two seats on each side o...
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Holding Patternby Ander Monson
United Airlines flight 5437, Tucson to Denver, 5:15 a.m. Seat 10D backseat library Not for lending, these volumes, SkyWest magazine, with a feature on...
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Two Flights to San Salvadorby Danielle Susi
May 2010 As our plane ascended, the New York City skyline was a silhouette of pillars, backlit by the rising sun. The sky, a hazy blue-green frosted w...
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Hungarian Novelsby Andrei Codrescu
On airplanes you should read Hungarian novels—they are the only reading that flies at the same altitude. I just let Skylark by Deszo Kosztolanyi...
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