Five Sentence Fiction: Flight

Five Sentence Fiction

In the vast airport, she wondered how her life was going to unfold.  Abigail knew that she was just beginning, yet she held onto the memories of the past so tightly she was unsure if she could ever let go.  Having given the valedictorian speech in front of a crowd of 3000 fellow graduates and their parents just days before didn't feel nearly as frightening as this experience.  Today she would head off to college.  Like a bird pushing her young out of the nest, her mother had sent her alone to make this flight.