380 | Short Story: The Coordinates (Intermediate English Story)

Title: The Coordinates

Level: Upper-Intermediate (B2-C1)

Description

Bush pilot Kate Larsen has flown plenty of strange charter requests, but nothing quite like this one: a passenger who pays cash, gives coordinates instead of a destination, and refuses to explain why he needs to reach an empty stretch of Alaskan wilderness with no village, airstrip, or settlement anywhere nearby.

When a sudden storm forces them down together on a remote gravel bar, Elliot Voss's careful evasiveness finally cracks, revealing a secret he's spent six years and most of his savings chasing — on...