The Flight Attendant

by Chris Bohjalian

scopaesthesia. The idea was you could sense when you were being watched. It was a cousin of scopophobia: the fear of being watched.

She wanted to lie. It was just easier to lie. So much of her life was lying.

Cassie understood that she would never feel anything like this: love born of certainty and ritual.

My life, she thought, is all hunger. Hunger and want and need.

The truth was, she had been living almost hour to hour