Free Ticket to Nowhere: Chapter 3

A Stark Mystery

Digital illustration by the author using photos by Daniel Eledut, Warren Wong, and Hernán Sartorio on Unsplash

I didn’t know whether I should be singing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” or “Dust in the Wind” as I bumped along in the rear seat of an old biplane crop-duster.

Curly the pilot was giving me a guided tour, inaudible over the noise of the engines and…