The Captain Knew Me Before the Passenger Did

the man’s face.

“The officer you refused to sit beside…”

“…is the reason I’m alive to fly this airplane today.”

He said my old call sign

I had one crutch under my arm and the other half-lifted when he said that.

Alive.

Sixteen years.

My brain did that ugly stutter it does when it’s trying to catch up to something my body has already recognized.

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