Soda Pop Soldier (2014)
“Its two parachutes following it deflate and lie adrift alongside. The SafetyFoam begins to dissolve with soft hisses and low pops. My Petey thrums with an incoming message. I can’t answer it. I’m still immobilized by the foam.
An hour later, Trixie and I are free. Instantly, she returns to the role of air hostess in crisis mode. She activates a panel, and a moment later the door to the suite is blown open. Survival gear is unlocked from an overhead bin, and an inventory of injuries official...ly taken.
There are none.
Trixie sets up “base camp,” as she calls it, in the long afternoon shadow beneath our dune. I walk to the top of the sand pile as a light desert wind picks up. I check the message on my Petey. It’s from Carter Banks.
“ColaCorp won,” he’d written. “I now control a majority of shares, which are currently skyrocketing on all open markets as we speak. Thanks, I owe you one.MoreLess
An hour later, Trixie and I are free. Instantly, she returns to the role of air hostess in crisis mode. She activates a panel, and a moment later the door to the suite is blown open. Survival gear is unlocked from an overhead bin, and an inventory of injuries official...ly taken.
There are none.
Trixie sets up “base camp,” as she calls it, in the long afternoon shadow beneath our dune. I walk to the top of the sand pile as a light desert wind picks up. I check the message on my Petey. It’s from Carter Banks.
“ColaCorp won,” he’d written. “I now control a majority of shares, which are currently skyrocketing on all open markets as we speak. Thanks, I owe you one.MoreLess
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