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Submitted to Contest #324
The altimeter tells me we’re at thirty-seven thousand feet. Ahead of the cockpit window, a cloud sags in the sky. Four and a half hours into my very first flight as a commercial captain. Four and a half hours spent relatively calm, which might be a personal record when you consider I’ve spent the better chunk of my life convinced that at any moment I’ll be responsible for some horrible disaster. Today our path runs from Honolulu to Boston. Two hundred and eight souls on board, not counting my own. From up high, everything and everyone looks ...
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