Flight Stories

There is an old joke that if you ask someone what super-power they would rather have, flight or invisibility, you really want to watch out for guys that say "invisibility". After all, those are the creepy guys who would rather be skulking around in locker rooms, rather than out soaring in the blue sky. Now, I don't know if that is totally untrue, but let me tell you, as a man who can fly, that it certainly has its sexual...

I was feeling disoriented as I opened my heavy eyelids. I could feel a touch of silky fabric on my cheeks. My head was resting on something soft. I blinked my eye and lay there for a few seconds. I could hear a faint thumping sound in my ears. I tried to concentrate and make sense of the thumping sound. Was it my own heartbeat I was hearing? I yawned in an attempt to shake off the weariness that seemed to be pinning me do...

It was just a typical transatlantic flight. I had business in LA, and I settled into my seat and gratefully drank the glass of champagne that the pretty cabin crew member offered me once I was seated. Emily her badge said. Nice name. The flight time was 12 hours, and in order to be reasonably awake when we landed, I took a relaxant pill after the first meal. It was just a sleepy making antihistamine, and after half an hou...