*** “One Bed to Another” is a compact work of literary humor that transforms a routine act of modern travel into a meditation on exhaustion, identity, and the quiet negotiations of adulthood. Through precise observational detail, a gently ironic narrative voice, and a tightly controlled structure, the piece elevates an early-morning airport encounter into a moment of existential comedy. *** One Bed to Another By Harry Arabian I had an 11 a.m. business meeting in Nashville, which required an act of quiet violence against my natural rhythms: an early-morning flight out of Boston’s Logan Airport. At 5 a.m., I shuffled into the TSA checkpoint in a condition best described as recently assembled . My hair pointed in several philosophical directions, my face was unshaven, and my clothes looked like the result of a hasty compromise between dignity and gravity. The only thing approximating coherence was a Boston Red Sox cap and a matching T-shirt—less an outfit than a plea for lenienc...