Last Flight | 100 Word Stories
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Last Flight | 100 Word Stories
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Where did it take off from? Where was it headed? Did it reach its destination? What became of the passengers? So many lives worth exploring.
Last Flight | 100 Word Stories
Oops, I guess I should have read more than the title. 😬
The Last Flight
The cabin looked as hollow as her heart felt as passengers moved past her first class seat with the same disjointed pace of her emotions - joy, fear, anticipation, resolve, laughter, tears, uncertainty, relaxed, and grief.
After decades of travel, it would be her last flight. She was out of options. The poisons had failed. There were no more trials. She was tired, but not unimaginative. Hospice was the reasonable choice, but who wants her last chapter to be reasonable? She refused to stop living before she died. So she chose her favorite tropical island and said goodbye…
"Flight 671"
The mysterious disappearance of Flight 671 of Florida Airlines remain to be one of the strangest episodes in the history of air travel.
The plane left Miami on December 10, 2056 for Panama City carrying about 150 passengers.
Everything went well as it traveled through the Caribbean Sea. But then it went dark about some few hundred miles south from Jamaica.
There were reports of strange patterns in the sky, no mere cloud nor squall. Communications cut out when the plane crossed over those clouds.
Even stranger was the plane’s fuselage found in Venezuela. But nothing else, not even bodies.