Barefoot
Chapter One
JUNE
Three women step off of a plane. It sounded like the start of a
joke. Joshua Flynn, age twenty-two, native of Nantucket Island,
senior at Middlebury College, summer employee of the Nantucket
Memorial Airport, where his father was an air traffic controller,
noticed the women immediately. They arrived on a US Airways flight
from LaGuardia. Three women, two small children, nothing unusual
about that, so what caught Josh's eye? Josh Flynn was a
creative-writing student at Middlebury, and his mentor, the
writer-in-residence, Chas Gorda, liked to say that a writer smells a
good story in the air like it's an approaching storm. The hair on
your arms will stand up, Chas Gorda promised. Josh checked his
forearms-nothing-and tugged at his fluorescent orange vest. He
approached the plane to help Carlo unload the luggage. Josh's
father, Tom Flynn, would be at a computer terminal five stories
above Josh's head, occasionally spying out the window to make sure
Josh was doing what he called "a decent job." Being under
surveillance like this provided as unsettling ... read full excerpt from: Barefoot ebook
