Freier Fall Today

Most people fear the fall. But Elias, drifting through the sky at 120 mph, felt a strange, chilling peace. In the fall, there are no taxes, no broken hearts, and no deadlines. There is only the wind and the countdown.

The alarm clock didn’t wake Elias; the silence did. At thirty thousand feet, silence is a terrifying sound. Freier Fall

He kicked the emergency door open. The roar of the wind was a physical blow, a wall of ice and noise. He looked back at the terrified faces in the cabin, but there was no time for heroics, only physics. He stepped out. Most people fear the fall

Elias drifted down, landing in a soft field of clover. He lay there for a long time, staring up at the empty blue sky, his heart hammering against his ribs. He had survived the fall, but he knew he’d left a piece of himself up there in the clouds—the part that was ever afraid of letting go. There is only the wind and the countdown