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FLYING TO PIECES [066-066-4.7]

By: Dean Ing

Synopsis:

Two floors up, Lovett was ushered into a room where he found Elmo
Benteen behind a curtain, with tubes in both arms and another taped
below his nostrils. "Aw Jesus, Elmo," was all Lovett could say.

The parchment eyelids fluttered open..Turning his head seemed to require
heroic effort from Benteen, whose lips formed the faintest of smiles.
"Just cut it too close with the sour mash," he said, so low that Lovett
moved nearer. "Well, they warned me. Call it pilot error."

"They'll have you up and around again, nice as you please, if you just
behave."

"You don't get it, Wade. Listen up, 'cause this is what they call a
death or death situation." A long breath, as if marshaling energy. Then:
"Early in '45, back when your fist was still a virgin, the Japs hid away
a fleet of planes for an all-out suicide war when we invaded Japan."-

Another pause, as Benteen's eyes closed. "Hundreds of planes, maybe
thousands, stashed everywhere. More than they had pilots to fly 'em.
They were recruiting high school kids as pilots near the end, and we
were finding late-model aircraft hid away for years afterward, regular
aerial armada."

He fell silent for a long moment, and Lovett touched the thin wrist
nearest him. The eyes opened. "Wade?" The hand groped for Lovett's,
gripped with surprising strength. "But they didn't find 'em all. I found
a half-dozen, maybe the last on earth in mint condition, in a cave
twenty years later, after my forced landing. I believe they're still
waitin' for the day that didn't come. It's a fuckin' bonanza, kid."

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