By Barry O'Farrell
The debris of our plane wreck is scattered across the snow-covered mountain top like a giant scar.
Day 10, we are now twenty-two survivors. Day 15, eleven. The wind is unrelenting, the cold unbearable. We are freezing.
To survive we make a profound decision as a group, cannibalism.
Reluctantly we feed on the fleshy parts of those passengers who died in the crash. We hope this will keep us alive. We pray their ghosts will forgive us. We hope society will understand.
Day 20, someone broke open the trolleys in the galley. We stooped to the unthinkable and ate airline meals.
This was absolutely delightful and the twist at the end made me laugh out loud – thank you!
Glad you liked it and laughed in the right place.
Some really chilling humor in this one.
Glad you saw the parallel and liked it.
Could never guess what was coming up! Enjoyed it, thanks.
I’m pleased it worked for you.
I thought this was going to be from the POV of someone from that crash they based ‘Alive’ on, so that was an excellent twist at the end. And yeah, I think society would forgive them…hahaha
Hope you will think of this story every time you fly.
only when faced with one of those poor excuses for a meal 🙂
Same as Jayne; I nearly groaned as I thought it was a going to be a rip off of ‘Alive’, but nice one Barry for the great twist and laugh out loud ending! More please!
Thank you for your encouragement. I’ll see what I can do.
What a fun flash story this one is. I didn’t see the twist coming. Loved it very much Barry.