Kind of a funny story behind this piece. It started
out as a story I was writing for The
Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette, to which I am a somewhat regular
contributor. The original version, which will appear in the Gazette in March, is called Missed Connection, and, like much of my
erotic flash fiction, it deals with the subject of lost love and is
correspondingly dark in tone. Well, when that was done, I liked the idea behind
it so much that I wrote another piece with the same premise – a chance meeting
at an airport – but in an entirely different style, and with a bona fide happy
ending to boot. Similar story, but in two versions: one “dirty,” and one
“nice.” I confess I was somewhat surprised at how sweet the “nice” version
turned out. Hmm, maybe there’s a romantic in me after all!
I loved the scenario of running into a former love
interest at the airport, with one person about to get on a plane, and the other
just getting off one. We’ve all been there, right? We’ve all had that fantasy
of bumping into someone we once cared about in an unexpected place, and having
all the things we always hoped would happen finally happen. It rarely works out
that way in real life, of course. You never run into Mr. or Ms. Lost Love ever
again, or if you do, it turns out there were solid reasons why you never hooked
up in the first place. Still a pleasant fantasy, though. And like
Billy Joel says, sometimes a fantasy is all you need.
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