By Ben Greenman
from forthcoming collection, as yet untitled
Mayor Norris’s story of how, during his visit to the airport to travel to his grandson’s wedding, the disconcerting discovery was made that the passengers on his plane “numbered thirteen at the gate,” and that “an additional passenger was located on a flight traveling to the same destination, persuaded to switch planes, and the difference in his fare paid for by the balance of the group,” is sufficiently strange given that during Norris’s term as mayor, the city frequently held Black Cat Days and Broken Mirror Days. But a question around superstition remains: Is the possibility of poor luck entirely averted by the addition of a fourteenth passenger after the thirteen were counted, or would misfortune already have settled in around the flight? At any rate, Norris made it to the wedding without incident, and it is now left to see if the marriage will last.
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