A Carnivore's Inquiry by Sabina Murray

Author:Sabina Murray [Murray, Sabina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781555847036
Publisher: Grove Atlantic
Published: 2004-10-15T04:00:00+00:00

Johnny gave me a rib-cracking hug at the gate. I had a moment’s panic when I thought I might be doing the wrong thing by leaving him. He was so strong. Johnny fished in his pockets and found a pack of pseudoephedrine and a bottle of Tylenol. “For the headaches,” he said. I don’t know when he bought them.

There were about fifteen people on the entire aircraft, which could easily have transported one hundred. I thought of drug operations, covert smuggling schemes. How else could an airline survive? The flight attendant offered me some chicken enchiladas and my choice of white or red wine, or champagne. I asked her if she had any tequila. She smiled and headed back up the gangway to the cockpit. I heard a belt of hearty male laughter and the clink of glass. Then she came back my way with a half-empty, unmarked bottle of the golden liquor. She poured me a double shot into a plastic cup and smiled.

“Who do I have to thank for this?” I asked.

“The captain,” she said.

We flew for a while through the clear skies and the earth peeled away beneath me in brilliant green and flat blue. I sipped my narcotic drink. The plane fell some distance, then recovered, then dipped to the left, and then recovered. We entered a toxic brown cloud. The speaker hissed to attention and after a few unintelligible nasal eruptions, went dead. My ears felt the slow ache of increased pressure and I yawned to pop them. All this I took to mean that we had begun our descent into Mexico City.

A bump, a skid, and a bump later, we had escaped the heavens and were once more bound to the soil.

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