I flew one of these for a while. In the face of climate change, can’t justify putzing around in the sky for fun.
This is another six-sentence blog challenge. The prompt word was strip.

1. Sometimes they call them runways, but those little grass strips around the countryside are just that—landing strips.

2. Imagine coming into one of them at night with minimal runway lights.

3. You’ve been watching the aura of a city far to your left and yard lights on scattered farms along the way.

4. Moonlight silvers the grasslands in between and stars are brighter up here.

5. Far away to your south heat lightning flashes along the horizon.

6. But you’re heading for that bumpy grass strip
that you can just now see–three miles from home