Night Flight Journal

Welcome to Night Flight

Night Flight is an Online Literary Journal that showcases the best in original fiction and non-fiction writing, poetry, art work, photography, and videos submitted by members of the Embry-Riddle community.

Night Flight is aimed at opening the door for expression. The students, faculty, and staff at Embry-Riddle are remarkable, and each has stories worth sharing. Night Flight is a creative platform that will inform, entertain, and inspire.

Current Issue

Volume 8, Issue 1 (2026)View issue

Featured Content

  • featured-article
    Poetry
    14 July 2026

    Airworthiness

    Cassandra Konz
    This poem deconstructs the concept of "airworthiness" from its technical definition to the broader concepts of worth, flight, and the forces that push us higher.
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  • featured-article
    Short Story
    29 January 2026

    The Glass Planet

    Eimile O'Hara
    The Glass Planet is a speculative science fiction short story set on Virellen, a world made entirely of living crystal that communicates through sound and resonance. When a young human researcher detects a dangerous anomaly beneath the planet’s surface, she forms an unlikely alliance with a member of an alien species to prevent the reawakening of an ancient crystal intelligence. As the planet destabilizes, the story explores themes of cooperation, balance, and the consequences of ignoring warning signs in unfamiliar worlds.
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Current Submissions

    • Poetry14 July 2026

      Airworthiness

      Cassandra Konz
      This poem deconstructs the concept of "airworthiness" from its technical definition to the broader concepts of worth, flight, and the forces that push us higher.

Popular Submissions

  • Photo
    19 May 2021

    Sunset Familiaris

    Chelsea LeNoble
    Sunset Familiaris depicts a Carolina Dog, rescued in Florida in 2012, standing on sandy ground in Seminole County, Florida that will be turned into a subdivision neighborhood. Behind him, a silhouette of trees line the horizon below a sunset sky. The dog, the earth upon which he stands, and the sky above them both are all nestled in stillness despite transition. Somewhat domesticated, somewhat wild.
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  • Photo
    19 May 2021

    Electronic Medical Record- Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)

    Tyleka RIddle
    What constitutes intelligence, “if” human factors experts believe that no artificial intelligence are intelligent independently, rather, in a functional system of human intellect. If machinery are intelligent and can think, how does one compare a machine to a human? Is it through the encoding process - the individual process for learning material or retrieval, what happens when an individual recalls material. e.g. the progression in artificial intelligence are enforced in tasking replacement to hierarchy of intelligences in predictability of analytical skills in the relation of importance servicing for employees “double-edge impact” for a softer analytical, intuitive and empathetic system. Keywords: constitute, intelligence and individual Reference: Goldstein, B.E. (2019). Cognitive Psychology, Connecting Mind, Research and Everyday Experience: Fifth Edition 2018. Boston, MA: Cengage.
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