Stories tagged “bomber”
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Confession
I check my watch: 4:52. Still plenty of time for the dark man to pull something off, if he needs to. But still, my mind is made up. I signal a stewardess over. “I think that man has a bomb.” I say. “I thought I saw a timer” I li...
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A scream on an airplane
I hear a scream as my gaze lingers on the spot where my spotter has gone. Then there is only silence. I should go check it out. After all, if something happens, they might think to recheck people for bombs and the like. And that is something I cannot a...
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Little Boy Blues
The spy watched as B-29-45-MO, serial number 44-86292, swung around onto the duty runway, her four Wright R-3350 Duplex-Cyclone radial engines idling comfortably as the pilot and co-pilot moved through their final check list. Things needed to be just r...
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Guy On A Train
He was a smallish man, somewhat nondescript in that he did not look particularly menacing. Nor did he look middle eastern, or arabic as the stereotype of a suicide bomber might call for. He did not have the thousand yard stare of a man about to die. He...