Welcome, listener. I am so glad you're here. Too often, we are lost among the fog, unable

to find our way. But I will help you follow the thread. 11 stories, one moment. Today's

entry, last, by William Schan, performed by Sarah Drew. Flight 008 is brought to you in

partnership with X-Prize.

At 4.58am on June 28, 2020, the passengers onboard A&A Flight 008, on route from Tokyo to San

Francisco, are cruising at an altitude of 37,000 feet, approximately 1500 nautical miles

off the west coast of the United States. A small bump, otherwise noted as a barely perceptible

bout of turbulence, passes Flight 008 through a temporary wrinkle in the local region of

space-time. What these passengers will soon find out, as they descend into SFO, is that

the wrinkle has transported them 20 years into the future, and the year is now 2040. This

is the story of the passenger in seat 42e.

Scene 1. Interior A&A Flight 008. 10.51am.

Yumeco Hall was last to understand what all the commotion was about. Minor mid-pissive

turbulence had kept her from sleeping earlier in the flight, but exhausted dreams had at

some point stolen over her. Vision's ever mother crumbling to dust gave way in a smash

cut to the bliery reality of her middle seat and the middle row at the very back of the

plane. They were on the ground at SFO, breaking hard. Despite the trident of the crew, passengers

were standing in the aisles, hunched, peering out the windows, pointing, chattering. She

shivered and stretched in her seat, blinking away sleep. She reached into the seat-back

pocket for her phone almost reflexively and switched it out of airplane mode. She ached

to be home with Kassim and especially little Akiko, an ache as deep as the ocean she had

just crossed, as specific as a shoe that refuses to be broken in. Akiko would be 8 days old

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