Angels with JFK (Airport!)

A rather 'stranger' account of airport travel, adapted from an episode of The Twilight Zone (TV series).

A modernized adaptation of Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (Twilight Zone). 

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I was at JFK Airport and thought I engaged with my alter-ego, and it scared the Hell out of me. This is the tale, and I urge you to consider its modern significance, because it's really unusual.

I walk inside JFK and wander around the various terminals, such as Aer Lingus and Aeroflot, taking notice of the design/decorations for my new revealing work (novel!) about airport consciousness.

I told my kids (at home), "My airport-study will change the way we think of transit storytelling online and for cyber-education, especially from the view of modern times."

I consider myself a reasonably intelligent man, and I think my study will reflect modernism investments in culture/society like Facebook and NASDAQ.

I met this stewardess (Dartmouth) who's very cute and told her I was excited for a delicious meal on-board my business flight, and I'd take notes about my new work about airport consciousness, which brought a smile to my/her face.

On my flight, I encountered my alter-ego, and he told me his name --- Ajay. This guy thought there'd be a 'specter' phantom on the wing of my flight-plane who, if I looked quite closely and through a dimension-view, would be revealed to be a 'deadly Xenomorph' dragon-alien.

AJAY: I brought a bottle of airport-bathroom made acid, with sodium-(OH) and salt and water and stuff (for a water-gun toy).

Ajay pulled out his 'water-toy' and loaded it with hot-acid while sitting next to me on the flight and prepared to use it for some kind of in-flight theater-stunt, which I admit now I was eager to witness alongside this strange, whom I was convinced was my alter-ego I was hallucinating.

AJAY: The number of people killed in-flight crashes and on-ground create all brands of cemetery faerie-tales, friend.

Now, I'm thinking back to my tour of the Aer Lingus terminal and others at JFK Airport and wondering why I boarded this strange flight only to encounter this stranger-stranger (Ajay). My life had been so normal otherwise, right?

AJAY: Aer Lingus is one of the most under-valued airlines (company) in the modern world, and it's no shock it's success.

That's when I realized Ajay was telling me the truth. I saw a man on the wing of the plane as we were taking-off, but Ajay 'assured' me it was a hallucination. However, this sight was before the plane took-off, and then Ajay saw the man (again!) during our flight in the air!

AJAY: Look with your soul and not your human eyes, passenger-57, and you'll see what the 'true' being is on the wing --- alien.

I'll never forget it. Ajay took a fire-extinguisher and broke a hole through the window and poured himself out and used his 'acid-gun' toy to shoot this 'Xenomorph' dragon-alien in the face, and the creature-being fell off the plane in death-shock and obviously to oblivion. I decided this would be the 'real' subject of my new novel/work about airport consciousness. It changed the way I'd ever look at modern civilization (Facebook, NASDAQ, etc., etc.).

I never saw this stranger ("Ajay") again, but what I'll remember most (me thinks!) is that the alien he destroyed on the airplane-wing was perhaps from the dark-side of the soul's imagination. Isn't Earth...disorienting? I think what I've learned is that curiosity may not kill the cat...but it can certainly draw out bloody diaries. Thanks for following.

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)