The Birthday Party

December, 1965

The Birthday Partyhe was still reeling under the kaleidoscopic daze of office bash, holiday mood and his own sharp sense of time rushing past ... now he found himself a continent away from home and ready for who-knows-what?He was still very in toxicated when the pilot or the copilot, or whoever it was, made the announcement. His head rolled over to one side, and he gazed through the window just level with his right shoulder and down to the ground below, where he could see beginning pin points of...