Bailey Marshall

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“The Red-Eye” by Bailey Marshall

Submitted to Contest #43

She met her father for the first time on a red-eye flight to Chicago. Ariel shuffled her way down the aisle of the plane, half asleep, bags thrown over her shoulder like the Junk Lady in Labyrinth. Her mom and step-dad had dropped her off at the airport a few hours prior, with hugs and kisses and coffees and well wishes for her senior year at Chicago’s School of the Arts. They didn’t cry this time. This time, eyes dry, they shooed her off into the abyss of terminals alone. Muscle memory took her all the way to her gate, and the last dre...

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