The Captain Knew Me Before the Passenger Did

the war

Now everybody near us was pretending not to listen in a way that meant they were hearing every word.

I said, “Fort Campbell?”

He nodded once.

The memory came in pieces at first. Rain on tarmac. A training bird. A maintenance issue that had been signed off but wasn’t fixed. Somebody young in the back seat laughing too loud because that’s what kids continue reading …