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bookkerri
@bookkerri.bsky.social
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Chocoholic. Writer of light and dark, sometimes beauty and sometimes snark. MFA student & all-around book nerd. SCBWI, 12x12. Social media awkward.
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A woman boards a plane. Her story is her own.
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February 11, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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...Just like he tells her when he travels with his mistress. He doesn’t know her affair is with herself. Couldn’t understand if she told him. 20/

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February 11, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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Champagne is for sipping, not gulping, so she takes it slow. Only halfway through her second glass. The flight attendant is already calculating when he’ll need to stop serving the woman alcohol, she can see it in his eyes. This trip is business, as far as her husband knows... 19/

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February 11, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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… a raggedy teddy bear whose fur is marinated in years-old tears. 18/

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February 11, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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The formerly green backpack crumples beneath the seat in front of its owner, its contents meager and less-than-bare necessities – six half-crushed granola bars, a wallet with a few twenties hastily shoved in, a spare set of mismatched clothes. At the bottom... 17/

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February 11, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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The meeting notes drift invisible in filtered cabin air. The woman gazes out at the cottony landscape laid at 30,000 feet, feeling it like damp lambswool between her toes. Inhabiting the little girl who used to pretend she could walk on those rolling hillocks. 16/

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February 11, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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The roughneck reviews schemata and the environmentalist reviews maps while the woman between them watches a ridiculous comedy to ease the ache in her heart. 15/

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February 11, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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The child kicks the seat in front of her. Air presses against the baby’s eardrumss and his cries ride over the engines. The woman bounces and shushes him, offering pacifier and bottle and finally breast, hoping the suction will bring him relief. 14/

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February 11, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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The new bride’s fingers play along her partner’s thigh, an elixir of affection and teasing, as they murmur about midnight walks and sunrise wakings and the soft sands of their love. 13/

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February 11, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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The husband holds the wife’s hand. She leans her head on his shoulder, the colorful scarf on her head silky against his cheek. 12/

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February 11, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Weariness won out. The teacher’s head lolls, mouth open, a vulnerable limpness that could never appear in her classroom. 11/

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February 11, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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The plane taxis down the runway and takes off. It reaches cruising altitude. 10/

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February 11, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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A woman boards a plane, the constant debate between grading papers and finally getting some rest so familiar that it barely registers. Instead, she counts seats and smiles at the small child on her way by. 9/

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February 11, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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A woman boards a plane, limbs too weakened to move her independently. The disease and its treatments have waged their war on the battlefield of her body, and her husband grieves even as he whispers encouragement. 8/

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February 11, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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A woman boards a plane, smile matching the sparkling ring on her finger. She looks over her shoulder at her partner. Between them float hopes of private moments on a secluded beach. 7/

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February 11, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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A woman boards a plane, infant strapped to her chest, directing a small child who ping-pongs against seats and shoulders. The sighs from the other passengers as she passes them nudge her down the aisle. 6/

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February 11, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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A woman boards a plane, settles into seat 27B between an oil rig worker and another woman whose water bottle is covered in Greenpeace stickers. The roughneck and the environmentalist called a truce the moment they stepped through the door. 5/
February 11, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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A woman boards a plane, Longchamp briefcase in hand and meeting notes on her mind.

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February 11, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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A woman boards a plane, a worn backpack that was once green her only piece of luggage.

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February 11, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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A woman boards a plane, settles into seat 6D and orders a glass of champagne.

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February 11, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Preorder link in case anyone wants to add another of her stories to their library! (Or mine. ☺️)
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January 26, 2024 at 6:20 AM