"Found in Space"

Found in Space
The crew of the orbiter could not believe what they saw. Impossible, but there it was, all of it. A sluggish confetti of bills, the amounts indeterminate in the distance between but whose color and shape marked them, unmistakably, as U.S. currency. Further along, a yawning aluminum briefcase which must have remained closed just long enough to deliver the currency safely into orbit. And then a body, frozen solid, which drifted close enough to the orbiter for the face, so familiar from the wanted posters, to be recognized. D.B. Cooper, who jumped out of that airplane but somehow fell up.

(This is another Boing Boing contest entry, and since there are already more than 900 entries over there and I thus have little chance of winning, I thought I'd save this little piece from oblivion by posting it here.)