By Danielle Frost
The airplane was the in-between. The trip to the airport was “Things have taken a turn and you should come as soon as you can.” Take-off was “Doctors say it’s not looking good.”
But the landing could still mean anything.
It might be “still not looking good,” “the worst has happened,” or “a miracle.” But right now, hand clutching her lifeless phone with that tiny plane symbol in the top right, this plane in the air was Schrodinger’s cat. Nothing more could go wrong, right or otherwise, and it was brief and merciful.
She wished the plane would never land.
Super. I love the analogy to the Schrodinger’s cat paradox.
Very good.story well written.
Superb – I love it!
Well done.
Oh how we know that liminal space! Well said.
Very clever, well done!!
Really good. That state of suspension when anything is possible.
This brilliant and all too relatable. Well done!
Lovely. Well done. Packed a full story of hope and possibility into this, I think.
Sharp and funny.
A good example of the saying ‘ignorance is bliss,’ though here the negativity fuelling the character’s thoughts in the air is preferable to what they might have to face on landing. A clever piece of flash.