Flying Too Close to the Sun by George Jehn (novels for beginners .txt) 📕

sky, at the clouds floating like distant weightless balloons with many thoughts filtering through his brain, all competing at once for his attention. But now, only one person remained front and center, Joe. He was determined to ride this memory train all the way to the end of the line. Was he ready to disembark? Information can be like an endless circle, taking power from someone and handing it to another. He could still recall standing in his room as a boy, ear to the wall, tears streaming down his cheeks hearing Joe’s accusations and wondering if he was really his father. He fought his entire life to keep these feelings tucked away. Should he now return to the place he once called home and inform both parents that Joe really is his father? Countering this were the vile memories, honed over the years with jagged edges of repressed anger and all for nothing. He hesitated. No, it was done; finished; over. His mother and father were lost. Joe couldn’t hurt him any more because what was formerly unknown was no longer. The past is what you make of it. What his parents had done to themselves was bad, but what they had done to him was worse. When his mother cheated, she also cheated him out of his childhood. Even though those demons were in the past, right now he didn’t have an inkling of what the word forgiveness meant; maybe someday, but not now. His closing chapter would be to put Joe and Ursula out of his life. Between Carol’s love and enabling Juni to return from the land of the dead, he’d go a step further and pull off a personal Lazarus.

He sped off, hopefully to a fairly certain future. Despite what he’d done for Juni, the reality remained that he still wasn’t one of New York’s finest citizens in line to receive an award. With this fact in mind, he reached over and retrieved the small black briefcase from the passenger side floor, rested it on the seat next to him and opened the latches with two loud clicks. Although trying to smile his mouth wouldn’t cooperate as he glanced at eight thousand bucks. Not bad for a night’s work. After all, I have to pay for Carol’s ring.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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George Jehn is a college graduate, former flight instructor, flight engineer, airline pilot and a six-year member of the Board of Directors of the Air Line Pilots Association and was an arbitrator on the Pilots System Board of Adjustment. He flew for two major airlines for over thirty years and has also worked as an aviation expert witness and hosted a live TV show.

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