Can't Bury Tales: Short Stories Inside a Short Story

When snow reroutes a pre-Thanksgiving flight
from O'Hare Airport to Detroit at night,
a group of stranded travelers decide
to let this dingbat Fred give them a ride.
I'm one of them, and we each take a crack
at telling tales to win our bus fares back.
In short, what starts out sorry and distraught
transforms into a ton of food for thought,
a literary appetizer for
the bounty that Thanksgiving has in store.