Flight.

About Flight

"Flight" is a short story by American writer John Steinbeck, first published in his 1938 collection The Long Valley. It appears in the ledger notebook under the title "Man Hunt". The story outlines a young man, Pepé, who is sent into town by his mother. She says he is not yet a man. While he is gone, Pepé kills a man, and after his return, he is forced to flee.