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 7, Issue 1 (2026)View issue

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Poetry
24 October 2025

Ash Mountain an Ekphrastic Poem by Nicholas Patterson

Nicholas Patterson
"Ash Mountain" is an ekphrastic poem that details the iconic World War II photograph of the Marines raising the American flag on Iwo Jima. Told through the eyes of a veteran reflecting on sacrifice, unity, and legacy. The poem transforms the still image into a living meditation on resilience. The moment captures six Marines, indistinguishable as individuals, collectively enduring a hard-fought battle. Their motion becomes both literal and symbolic, depicting the struggle to lift not only the flag but also the weight of war, memory, and national identity.
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Short Story
31 July 2025

ENTRY #426

Joshua Lee
Entry #426 is a short science fiction story told through a recovered log from a salvage crew investigating a derelict mining vessel in restricted space. As routine operations give way to unexplained events, the line between report and confession begins to blur. A tense, atmospheric narrative about isolation, perception, and the dangers of the unknown.
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Current Submissions

Poetry17 January 2026

Bound and Becoming

Alexis Salazar
This poetry collection explores the theme of bound and becoming through free-verse poems that examine boundaries, inheritance, responsibility, and transformation. The poems reflect moments of pause and tension, highlighting how personal growth often occurs within constraints rather than in their absence. Through imagery of thresholds, gravity, threads, and buried seeds, the collection traces the speaker’s evolving understanding of identity and change. Together, the poems present becoming as a gradual, intentional process shaped by both limitation and choice.
Poetry17 January 2026

While the Page Is Still Open

Andres Lugo-Garza, Andres Lugo-Garza
While the Page Is Still Open is a lyrical journey through memory, doubt, and personal growth. From risky adventures and quiet struggles to moments of faith and creative discovery, the collection explores how experiences both joyful and painful shape identity and resilience. These poems invite readers to reflect on their own lives as they witness the speaker’s journey of endurance, self-understanding, and the quiet power of creativity.

Popular Submissions

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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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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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