One of my new stories, "Baggage," is in issue 2.2 of Relief: A Quarterly Christian Expression. Go here to order a copy.

Here's an excerpt:

Millie Fryer perched behind the UTE Airlines counter and eyed the swarm of surly passengers from Flight 1420 collecting their worldly goods from the baggage carousel. The flight was 45 minutes late into Reno-Tahoe due to an Arizona sandstorm and then smoke from fires near Lake Tahoe. Add to that the heat of late afternoon in June, pockets of crying babies, and lost bags – you had a recipe for disaster, or at least a major headache. As Millie scanned the crowd, she knew it was very likely that at least one of these fine citizens would be luggageless when the carousel stopped. Bags had been lost or delayed on 15 of the last 25 flights on her watch. She kept score.