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    Flight of Madness
    Flight of Madness
    Flight of Madness
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    Flight of Madness

    By Cora Buhlert

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    Five flights, five stories, five descents into madness

    A suicidal banker takes one last flight to end his life in a place where no one knows him. But the lady in the seat next to him might just make his suicide plans obsolete…

    Carrie Ragnarok, spy extraordinaire, just wanted to relax on the plane taking her from one assignment to the next. But when a passenger flips out, her special skills are needed once more…

    Drunken and rude passengers aboard a plane are a nightmare. But it's even worse when you happen to be the unlucky person seated right next to a rude drunkard. And once the rude drunkard starts to harass you, it's easy to lose your temper…

    Flight attendant used to be her dream job. But for Tania, that dream has long turned into a nightmare of stressful working hours and rude passengers. Then, one day during a flight taking holidaymakers to Mallorca, Tania decides that she has had enough…

    Moorwick South has a reputation as a haunted airport, surrounded by treacherous swamps, a place where strange things happen. But its approach lights have always held a special meaning for Sam. Until the night they lure him to his doom…

    This is a collection of five short stories of 9300 words altogether.

    Warning: There are a few rude words and sexual references in some of the stories, so the easily offended should tread carefully.
     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPegasus Pulp Publishing
    Release dateDec 16, 2012
    ISBN9781498904933
    Flight of Madness
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    Cora Buhlert

    Cora Buhlert was born and bred in North Germany, where she still lives today – after time spent in London, Singapore, Rotterdam and Mississippi. Cora holds an MA degree in English from the University of Bremen and is currently working towards her PhD. Cora has been writing, since she was a teenager, and has published stories, articles and poetry in various international magazines. When she is not writing, she works as a translator and teacher.

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      Flight of Madness - Cora Buhlert

      Introduction

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      Airplanes are thresholds, liminal spaces, spaces of transition. The transition between ground and sky. Transitions between cities, states, countries and continents. The transition between the earthly and the unearthly. And sometimes, the transition between sanity and madness.

      These are five stories of such transitions. Five stories set on the borderline between mundanity and strangeness. Five stories of five flights, in America, in Europe and across the great ocean inbetween. These are the stories of five people aboard those planes — three passengers, a flight attendant and a pilot — who suddenly find themselves plunged into extraordinary circumstances. And these are the stories of five descents into madness.

      These stories are short and sharp, like one of those short hop flights where the plane begins its descent as soon as it has reached cruising altitude.

      So fasten your seatbelt, fold up your tray, put your seatback in an upright position and prepare to descend beyond the borders of sanity straight into madness.

      And always remember: Your life vest is under your seat, should you need it.

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      Unexpected Fortune

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      Jalil Abhaya climbed over the lady in the aisle seat, a meek looking redhead in a severe blue suit, to reach seat 17A. He settled down, dutifully fastened his seatbelt and waited for the plane to take off. While the flight attendant explained the safety procedures, he stared out of the window. Why should he pay attention? Safety meant nothing to a man who was already dead.

      For Jalil was dead — or would soon be. His life was in ruins. He had nothing left to live for.

      A week ago, his girlfriend had left him after three years together. She had found somebody else, she said. She was sorry, she said. She would pick up her things on Friday, she said. She was probably rummaging through the flat they had shared at this very moment. When Jalil closed his eyes, he could almost see her, throwing all her belongings, her clothes, her shoes, her books, her CDs, her DVDs, the silver cutlery she had inherited from her grandmother, even that ugly crystal vase he had always hated, into a big cardboard box. She was probably glad that he wasn’t there, that she didn’t have to face him. After all, she didn’t even have the courage to tell him to his face that she was leaving him, didn’t even have the courage to look him in the eyes as she broke his heart into a billion little pieces and stomped all over the leftovers. She had just left a message on the answering machine that Jalil had found one day when he came home from office.

      It had been a blow, a bad one, and Jalil had thought that things couldn’t get worse. But they could and they did. For that very morning he had been called to the office of his boss at GC Investment Bankers. Employing you has turned out to be a bad investment, Mr Abhaya… his boss had said, "…and we at GC

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