BOOK CHAPTERS BY Stuart Englander
Seasonal Allegories: Chapter 9
From O. Henry to Rod Serling, and other short stories in between
All Aboard For the Adventure of Your Lives
Donny was a pilot and an entrepreneur who wanted to launch a new era in air travel, so he went and leased the sleekest, most luxurious passenger jet he could find. To get his new business off the ground, he advertised an adventure FLIGHT OF A LIFETIME in two separate marketing campaigns.
Donny offered cut-rate prices to board this flight on media that targeted average folks. He promised them the trip of their dreams and exclusive vacations. Billed as a one time only opportunity, customers of meagre means who had dreamed of a first-class getaway, bought up his flight tickets at an incredible pace. Donny sold over a hundred times more tickets than he had room for on the flight. The dream flight was scheduled to depart on the 21st of the following month, about five weeks hence.
Donny also sold premium, wildly expensive seats to a select few who could afford to take a better than first-class flight on his new airline. Promising an elite clientele the most extravagant opulence anyone had ever seen, he sold out his flight very quickly to the highest bidders. Their…
