Midnight Special
“He was as surprised as the stewardess that this didn’t happen. Another movie myth shattered, Matt thought, as the roar of freezing wind from the open doorway, the blaring alarm, and all the buttercup facemasks dropping down from above gave the passengers the signal to panic, vomit, and say their prayers.
Reaching out across the dead woman from Moses Lake to Elaine, her skull-exposed jaw snapping repeatedly like she was saying something that was lost in the blast of wind, Matt grasped hold of the baby. The creature that had been Elaine wrenched her body sideways in a grotesque game of tug-of-war that ended with Matt grabbing the stewardess’s right hand and snapping it off at the wrist. The baby came free and Matt pulled it to his chest as Elaine spit bile at him. Then she lost her footing and tumbled out the door and into the endless blue sky.
Matt was going to be a hero.
He could see all the signs. When he had handed the baby back to her mother, after the plane had landed to the appla...use of the passengers (what would they have done if the pilot had crashed?MoreLess
Reaching out across the dead woman from Moses Lake to Elaine, her skull-exposed jaw snapping repeatedly like she was saying something that was lost in the blast of wind, Matt grasped hold of the baby. The creature that had been Elaine wrenched her body sideways in a grotesque game of tug-of-war that ended with Matt grabbing the stewardess’s right hand and snapping it off at the wrist. The baby came free and Matt pulled it to his chest as Elaine spit bile at him. Then she lost her footing and tumbled out the door and into the endless blue sky.
Matt was going to be a hero.
He could see all the signs. When he had handed the baby back to her mother, after the plane had landed to the appla...use of the passengers (what would they have done if the pilot had crashed?MoreLess
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