Best British Short Stories 2022 by Nicholas Royle

Author:Nicholas Royle
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Salt Publishing Limited
Published: 2022-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

She takes her drink out to the pool and the noise of the bar slips away. Staring into the surface of the water she can recall with absolute clarity how beautiful the plane looked in the moment before it broke up, with the sun bright on its fuselage, its wing tip about to touch the glistening membrane of the sea’s shifting surface. The smooth carapace of the silver hull gave no indication of the events that must have been going on inside. These things would be spoken of later, at inquest hearings, in the testimony of the survivors. They will play the cockpit voice recordings full of indistinct shouts and electronic voice warnings: Sink rate. Sink rate. Terrain. Terrain. Pull up. Pull up. Terrain. Terrain. For now, she imagines the panic of those last moments – a slowed-down world – in which the woman in the window seemed to see her, recognise her, and wave.

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