I saw a flame on the water a couple of miles out. The Coast Guard found John the next day, washed up on a small island. They pulled the plane and two more bodies from the bottom of a deep channel.
Shane Hinton is the author of the debut story collection, PINKIES. He holds an MFA from the University of Tampa. He lives in the winter strawberry capital of the world. His fiction has appeared in Word Riot, The Butter, The Good Men Project, The Nervous Breakdown, Fiction Advocate & elsewhere.
