Writing Prompt

I sit in my chair, scrolling through my phone, as my eyes drift to the massive window in front of us. Our plane gleams faintly at the gate under the heavy October sky, its white body contrasting sharply with the swirling gray clouds overhead. There’s a weight to the air today, something strange I can’t quite put my finger on.

“Look at that guy,” Brian says, nudging me with his elbow.

I glance up...

We met in the spring

In the hand-me-down chill

Of winter cold sting

I feel it all still

A blissful triquetra

Three names carved in stone

One taken, one lost

And one now alone

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I died in October

I left with the leaves

Now there’s only two

I know you’ll miss me

I pray from my heart

You won’t drift apart

My exit isn’t an ending

You both can restart

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Her death was a storm

In our o...

Flight 2842 landed in Dallas to an empty airfield in the middle of winter.

“Holy Jesus. Frank,” said Pennington. He contoured his mouth at his copilot. “Earth to Frank Watson.”

Frank’s airline cap laid over his face. His body flung back with his legs up on a part of the console. A large empty bottle of vodka laid at his feet.

“Well, you’re no help.” He picked up a radio from the console. “Ginda...

Bags in hand, on back, pulling rolling luggage behind Avery ran into the concourse to find her check-in desk. Somehow she was able to walk right up to the clerk who was doing very little as Avery blurted out “Yes, Hi, I’m so sorry I need to get checked into my flight.”

The clerk looked up, her name tag set on her ample bosom and gleamed under the blue lights and no matter how hard Avery squinted...

Morgan stared at herself in the airport bathroom mirror popping another diazepam under the yellow light. She hadn’t slept properly since the funeral on Tuesday. Soon she’d be back to normal, cramming for exams in her university library and the tragic event of her uncle and aunts death would be forgotten so she could study for finals. Before life could resume normality she had to escort her kid cou...

Carly watched from the large waiting area window at gate 6B as the massive jet crashed down onto the jetway, bursting into flames.

The people around her all gasped and pushed against her to get a view from the window behind where she sat.

The ground crew ran quickly across the jetway, fire hoses in hand, to put out the fire.

At that moment, the next plane nose dived onto the jetway atop the las...

I watch as the animated map on my screen pops up. We’re just about 200 miles away from Savannah. We should be landing soon.

“Excuse me, miss?”

I turn to my left. The young man sitting in the aisle next to me is leaning over, looking around curiously.

“What’s going on?”

What an odd question.

“What do you mean?”

He raises his eyebrows, “The plane, what’s going on with it?”

“What do you mean?”...

“Boarding Flight 1, Take Off at Midnight” a voice cackled over the loudspeaker, echoing through the empty airport. Why is it empty? There should be other flights at night.

I walk to my gate. The seats are dilapidated pieces of fake leather that my bag will barely fit on. Footsteps crowd the hallway, but no one enters.

A flight attendant ushers me onto the plane, and I see all the passengers. R...

I went to the airport for a work trip. When I arrived the lights were all off, the planes were nowhere to be seen even in the dark. I heard lots of odd noises. Most of the noises sounded like screams. There was also strange mist in the places the planes were supposed to be.

I then realized that I was alone. Usually this airport was crowded.

All of a sudden the lights flickered and I was o...

The plane kicked off the ground and in a matter of moments, we were soaring through the air. Out of my window I studied the buildings as they became smaller, and suddenly, there was a sickening feeling in my chest.

Every part of me wanted to scream out until my lungs gave out. The sweat on my brow burned as it became visible. I couldn’t understand what was happening until it hit me like a carry-o...