I Bought A Plane Ticket To Surprise My Pilot Husband On Our Anniversary

touched the folded paper slip of my boarding pass, thirty-four-C, which had cost three hundred forty dollars. It was a small price for a surprise.

The plane taxied slowly toward the runway, pausing once to let another jet pass in the dark. I watched the cabin lights dim for takeoff, leaving only the tiny yellow reading spotlights overhead.

We accelerated continue reading …