"American Airlines Cockpit" by Mary Anne Mohanraj (moh2@midway.uchicago.edu). Two college girls (one straight, one bi) are on their way to England for the Christmas holiday. They're bored, and one of them is afraid of flying. What can the other girl suggest that might relieve boredom and get her friend's mind off her acrophobia? The solution lies in a trip to the cockpit, where they learn the true value of automatic pilot.

The FAA - the organization that tells pilots when and how to do it - would like me to make it clear that pilots do things like this only under the relatively rare circumstances when sexy college girls enter the cockpit in mid-flight, do a striptease, and ask to test the pilots' instruments. The author does an excellent job of creating ambiance with informal banter that makes this a really delightful story. This author has a whole collection of her stories on the Web at http://mud.bsd.uchicago.edu.