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Somewhere To Pray (Kurush) Benjamin Solah   It’s 7.15am. My heart’s racing. I’m not sure how I’ve made it this far. I clutch my Pangaean boarding pass. The Dubai flight boards at 7.45 and I’m pretty sure I checked in with my eyes closed. Focus Kurush, I tell myself. Half an hour. Escape is so [...]

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Chase The Day Jason Coggins   From the sliding doors to the baggage claim belt, to the taxi drop-off point and the check in zone: the floor of Terminal One was littered with the debris of travel interrupted. Stranded passengers had erected suitcase forts and sleeping bag moats around tiny patches of floor claimed as [...]

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One Behind The Eye Richard Jay Parker   Kathleen ran her finger lightly around the edge of her eye socket as if it would absorb some of the ache inside her head. The pounding was a dependable travelling companion.  Her journey’s soundtrack.  A symptom of her past that had become as real a part of [...]

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Thirteen Feathers Rob Diaz   I despised traveling. This wasn’t a simple, every-day dislike of traffic or airport delays, but a real, deep-seated hatred within me; the kind of feeling usually reserved for racists, car alarms at 2:30 in the morning and genetically-modified vegetables.  It was a loathing only made worse by someone insisting you [...]

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No Passengers Allowed J.M. Strother   As airports go, this one was pretty screwed up. An ongoing strike at the entrance to the international terminal left a mess of irate picketers and confused travelers in its wake—chaos defined. Sam Harris cut through the angry bodies, ignoring their shouted grievances, and headed inside. He found little [...]

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Providence Dale Challener Roe   “I can get your bag back.” The voice came from behind. “Excuse me.” The words spat out of my mouth, my body whipping around. “I said ‘I can get your bag back.’” I glared at him. Scruffy, in a faded and cracked leather jacket. A backpack, blazoned with a Canadian [...]