For the past few weeks, I have been reading incessantly.
And the thing that got me hooked was spooky short stories.
I have engrossed myself so deeply in those stories that spooky dreams have haunted me too.
However, these stories and consequent happenings have intrigued me with one thing.
And that is whether I could write a spooky story myself or not.
So with that uncertainty in mind, I have tried my imagination to write about a strange event that happened in the life of David Coquette.
So without further ado, my dear readers I'll give you the story named
Flight No. AA2981
The fall break is about to get over and John has to go back to San Francisco where he lives with his mother.
David isn't happy, because it is the only time of the year when he gets to spend time with his son after he and his wife Amanda got estranged.
However, Flight No. AA2981 of Aviation Airlines has already been booked for two.
A day after, Amanda, John's mom, comes to pick John up.
With a heavy heart and great reluctance, both John and David bid each other farewell and looked forward to the next year when they'd meet again.
After sending John off, David comes back to his home. A few hours later, almost at half past 7, David hears a strange knock on his door.
He stands up and goes to open the door.
To his utter surprise, it was John and Amanda.
On seeing them at the door, David can't contain his joy and approaches John for a big bear hug.
However, John was awfully quiet with an inexplicable grimace on his face. And so was Amanda.
When David asks the reason for such a surprise, Amanda responds that they had a sudden change of heart.
David let them in and after a few minutes of reposing the family had their dinner and set out for bed.
But the whole experience was a bit odd for David, especially the cold gaze of John and the quiet mouth of Amanda.
Nevertheless, without thinking much David hits the light of the hallway and approaches his bedroom, finally calling it a night.
The very next day, David wakes up to a baffling commotion coming out from the neighborhood.
He sits up and approaches the front door and goes out.
As he comes out of the front door, he feels strange as everyone outside of the neighborhood grimly looks at him.
Before he could understand anything, Sammy, the next-door neighbor of David, comes at him sobbing and places his hand on his shoulder while handing him over the newspaper of the day.
On seeing the newspaper David suffers a heart attack and falls down to the ground unconscious.
Soon enough, everyone around the neighborhood circles down on David, sighing what a tragedy of an event the Coquette family has succumbed to.
Minutes later someone picked up the newspaper that fell on the ground from David's hand and read what was written on the front page.
The texts of the news brought a visceral chill through the reader's neck which followed the words:-
ALL THE PASSENGERS BOARDING FLIGHT NO. AA2981 OF AVIATION AIRLINES HAVE DIED MINUTES AFTER THE TAKE-OFF DUE TO THE ENGINE FAILURE.
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