From Carrot Ranch, the August 13, 2020, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story about a first flight. It can be anything or anyone that flies. What is significant about the first? Go where the prompt leads!
Arriving, D. Avery
Signs and arrows made navigating the mazelike interior of the airport easier than she’d imagined. Still she was passed left and right by more experienced travelers towing wheeled suitcases, rushing down the wide corridor labeled “Departures”. She clutched her satchel and continued until she was in a glassed in peninsula thrust into a sea of tarmac, roiling with activity. She found her gate, a closed door really, but one that would open for her, take her away. Away at last. Seated close to this doorway she again examined her ticket. One way. She would be transported and then— “Arrivals”.
Regardless of how many times we’ve made the journey, it becomes the first flight of the unknown when there is no return ticket. Intrigued and wanting more.
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Thank you. Reckon that’s a story seed, we’ll see what happens to it.
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love the ending – the one-way and leading us to arrivals 🙂
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Thank you. Yep, I knew it had to be a one way ticket. Otherwise you haven’t arrived anywhere really.
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