How to Get an Angel Through Airport Security: an (not-really) Instructional Guide on Winged Creatures and Mechanical Flight Customs

by Stovohobo

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Yes, I have wings. Can I fly from Boston to San Fran in a day while carrying a terrified twenty-six-year-old girl? A resounding no.

Probably alone, and by the grace of God, I could. However, my entire reason for being physically on Earth was to test my faith and…well, guardian angelness, I guess.

So airfare it was, then. We managed to scrounge enough money together from Emilia’s savings to buy two tickets in economy class.

I, of course, had never flown on a plane, and I think Emilia might’ve only been once or twice. So the shock was all the greater as I stepped into a world of constant activity, a hectic air, glass and plastic, and sub shops. Pay phones, service desks, X-rays, metal detectors, baggage claims. Did we even have baggage? I looked at us with only the clothes on our backs. I guess not.

The last few items I had mentally listed I encountered at security. I felt nearly stripped down as I first put my belt and shoes onto the conveyor.

Nope, this wasn’t gonna be pleasant.

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Average Reader Rating: 5.0 stars out of 5

  1. How to Get an Angel Through Airport Security: an (not-really) Instructional Guide on Winged Creatures and Mechanical Flight Customs

    Nouvelle Bardot's Buddy Icon Nouvelle Bardot

    Posted 8 months ago

    Oh Stovohobo, you’ve done it again. You slapped a chuckle out of me. Airports are a bitch. But angels in airports are even better. Wow, that would be a deck band name. Angels in Airports. Oh yeah. I’m so gonna copyright that. Don’t get any ideas. : D
    LoA

  2. How to Get an Angel Through Airport Security: an (not-really) Instructional Guide on Winged Creatures and Mechanical Flight Customs

    Ana Cristina's Buddy Icon Ana Cristina

    Posted 8 months ago

    I used to work in Miami Int’l Airport, so I know the hell that airports can be. Which makes it all the sweeter to have angels in that hellish place. Great, great stuff.
    LoA

  3. How to Get an Angel Through Airport Security: an (not-really) Instructional Guide on Winged Creatures and Mechanical Flight Customs

    NightMaiden's Buddy Icon NightMaiden

    Posted 8 months ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    haha, i know how he feels
    Heathrow was a nightmare last year…everybody was going nuts

    ana, you put it in a word: “hellish”

  4. How to Get an Angel Through Airport Security: an (not-really) Instructional Guide on Winged Creatures and Mechanical Flight Customs

    Stovohobo's Buddy Icon Stovohobo

    Posted 8 months ago

    Oh my gosh – Nouvelle, you never should’ve said that. Now I’m gonna go out and make a terrible band that can’t even make music just for the sake of that name. Too bad you’re copyrighting it…but not if I do first!

  5. How to Get an Angel Through Airport Security: an (not-really) Instructional Guide on Winged Creatures and Mechanical Flight Customs

    Terminus' Buddy Icon Terminus

    Posted 8 months ago

    That’s a pretty cool premise.

  6. How to Get an Angel Through Airport Security: an (not-really) Instructional Guide on Winged Creatures and Mechanical Flight Customs

    Never Explain's Buddy Icon Never Explain

    Posted 8 months ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    HA!!! I beat all of you!!! thats my Rock Band/ Guitar Hero band!!!

    HA!!!!

    Angels in Airports

  7. How to Get an Angel Through Airport Security: an (not-really) Instructional Guide on Winged Creatures and Mechanical Flight Customs

    SKermitgorf's Buddy Icon SKermitgorf

    Posted 8 months ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    Stovo, always a pleasure to read your ficlets, never know what they will be about. angels in airports.. only your creative mind can conjure up such an image.
    well told, love the characters.
    LoA

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