Elizabeth Eckstein

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“Stardirect Express” by Elizabeth Eckstein

Submitted to Contest #90

Crammed together like a survival meal in a tin can, I glance at the girl rubbing against my left side. She smiles awkwardly and looks down, blinking and chewing her lip. The guy on my right nods, his gnarled hands resting peacefully in his lap. ‘Someone meeting you?’ he asks, bending his neck to the side and nearly knocking mine. ‘That side?’ ‘Er, yes. Yes.’ My hands, no less gnarled, are not as quiet as his. They are fidgeting. Thumbing a piece of paper that has gone furry and frayed. ‘She’ll be there,’ I say, but only to myse...

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