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Submitted to Contest #293
“Why does it take three hours and 48 minutes to fly here, and four hours to fly back?” the preteen asks, absorbed by the simulated world of his iPhone. He sits in the waiting area along with his parents and sister, their carry-ons, including four rollaboards, bunched around them, cramping their knees as if rehearsing for the airplane’s constrained seating. Coping with a spontaneous spasm, the father stretches one leg across the tops of two cobalt blue bags, both aflame with neon orange duct tape. This answers the question, Why do people buy ...
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