Terror on Flight 789

The original story of the Mormon missionary who cried bomb

36 posts

Chapter 23: Sealed with a Giggle

previous: Chapter 22: Missionary Burlesque Fortunately, the president hadn't caught any part of my strip show. He only wanted to discuss some procedural matters with me—and when that was done he had a couple of surprises to spring on me. "President Harvey has been working hard

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7 Min
By: Elder Shunn

Chapter 22: Missionary Burlesque

previous: Chapter 21: Gag Me with an Elevator Elder Eby drove me back to the mission office in his big tan sedan. He was a thin, white-haired old man in a polyester suit, and he seemed to wear a permanent expression of bemused perplexity. In fact, he resembled nothing so

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4 Min
By: Elder Shunn

Chapter 21: Gag Me with an Elevator

previous: Chapter 20: The Thousand-Dollar Kid When all the bail determinations were finished, we were taken back to our cells, this time by a more direct route. Then there was another eternity to suffer through before my papers were finally processed and I could leave. At one point, a guard

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6 Min
By: Elder Shunn

Chapter 20: The Thousand-Dollar Kid

previous: Chapter 19: If Justice Is Blind, Then It's Really Missing Out! At long last, as I lounged on my bunk in the cell that now seemed so much like home (but only because I could barely remember ever living anywhere else), a guard unlocked the door to

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6 Min
By: Elder Shunn

Chapter 19: If Justice Is Blind, Then It's Really Missing Out!

previous: Chapter 18: We Replaced Their Everyday Coffee with This Toxic Sludge Shortly after breakfast was over, and after all our used utensils had been collected and carted away with the rest of the garbage, a guard came to the door of the cell and called my name. "You&

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5 Min
By: Elder Shunn

Chapter 18: We Replaced Their Everyday Coffee with This Toxic Sludge

previous: Chapter 17: If I Strip for You, Will You Leave Me Be? We ended up somewhere in the middle of a cell block that was larger than I could properly perceive in the darkness. The cop unlocked a barred door and held it open for me. I walked through.

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6 Min
By: Elder Shunn

Chapter 17: If I Strip for You, Will You Leave Me Be?

previous: Chapter 16: The Elder's New Clothes I didn't realize it yet, but I was walking into one of the most harrowing nightmares of my life—one that, frighteningly enough, would have made me a true living legend in the Canada Calgary Mission if earlier events

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4 Min
By: Elder Shunn

Chapter 16: The Elder's New Clothes

previous: Chapter 15: I Lose a Friend After another immeasurable period of waiting, in even deeper despair than before, I heard a new guard come to my cell. "Visitors, Shunn," he said, unlocking the door. "Coupla fellows from your church. They've even got some different

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5 Min
By: Elder Shunn

Chapter 15: I Lose a Friend

previous: Chapter 14: I Make a Friend In the days following, as I related my experiences to my fellow missionaries, one question was asked me more than any other. This question was also asked frequently by other returned missionaries back in the days when I still told the story aloud

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7 Min
By: Elder Shunn

Chapter 14: I Make a Friend

previous: Chapter 13: (Things Will Be Great When You're) Downtown Actually, we came to a pretty good accommodation fairly quickly, my fellow jailbirds and I. I'd just sit against the far wall pretending I wasn't there, and everyone else would ignore me. Hey, it

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5 Min
By: Elder Shunn

Chapter 13: (Things Will Be Great When You're) Downtown

previous: Chapter 12: Confess, Shunn! I knew immediately that this great bear of a police officer was a member of the Church—it was obvious from the familiar way he called me "Elder." But, unwilling by this time to believe that something good might finally be happening to

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5 Min
By: Elder Shunn

Chapter 12: Confess, Shunn!

previous: Chapter 11: Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch... It probably seems odd that I should name this chapter what I have, in light of the fact that, at this point in our story, I have already confessed my crime. Ah, but something I didn't realize when I made

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5 Min
By: Elder Shunn

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