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Gate Forty-Seven

Boarding Order

A Buff Orpington rooster in a camel wool overcoat over a charcoal herringbone suit and burgundy scarf, standing in a modern airport terminal beside floor-to-ceiling windows with planes in fog on the tarmac, a long queue of travelers stretching behind him into soft bokeh

He had been told to expect a delay, which is to say he had been told nothing at all. The line moved with the collective determination of people who had each, separately, decided they were next.

30 March 2026