His company, NeoVision Productions, specializes in special and laser effects for motion pictures and theatre, and holographic services for advertising and print media. He is a Vietnam veteran, has a degree in Theatre from the University of Hawaii and knows everything there is to know about Star Trek and its many incarnations. Anxiously, he looked out the window of the plane. Below he saw the green jungled edge of the land neatly jagged and bordered by a thin line of beach jutting into the blue of the ocean. From 18,000 feet the earth takes on an unreal quality.
Height causes large areas of the earth to blend into almost distinct patches of color.
Looking into the cloudless sky, he found himself suspended, saw the sun staring down with an unfelt heat. The inside of the plane was dank while in the light outside the engines droned on without change as the plane imperceptibly crossed the boundary of sea and land. Looking down once more, a small chill started at the base of his spine and quickly tickled the hairs on the back of his neck. This can't be real. He put it back in the drawer for the fourth or fifth time, thinking of the discussion with the professor of his political science course at the local junior college.