Warning at the airport

Come to think of it, Timmy had said something strange at JFK Airport before boarding too. He’d been staring intently at the parked aircraft through the gate window. “Mama, the airplane says it hurts.” His mother dismissed it as a child’s metaphor for fear of injections and let it go. If she had thought more deeply about the meaning of those words back then, the terror awaiting them might have been different.

