Over Moonlit Clouds
ShortStory 6,926 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
"Folks later claimed she was acting strange from the moment she boarded the plane. They described her as skittish, curt, radiating an aura of danger. Some, when confronted with the security footage, which showed her to have behaved rather unremarkably up until she bolted into the bathroom, refused to change their story."
Content warnings 3
child-deathgoreviolence
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