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Submitted to Contest #313
The carriage was nearly deserted when we left the city.Maya sat near the window, forehead against the cold glass, watching the stations whiz by like the pages of a book she had read before. Streetlights blurred into each other in the rain. She didn’t know what she was searching for—only that she could not remain where she had been.The man in the aisle opposite them had not budged since they departed the terminus. A hat covered his face. He appeared as if he had been waiting for this trip all his life.There was a rhythm to the train, a heavy,...
Submitted to Contest #309
The train shuddered once—enough to disturb the surface of Mara’s coffee—then stopped. Not at a station. Not in a tunnel. Just… nowhere. Outside the window: fog. White and thick like cotton dragged across the sky. There was no road, no tracks, no city. There was just fog consuming the world. She blinked and looked around. The carriage was nearly empty. A woman in a gray coat was dozing, her head tilted against the glass. A kid with earbuds bobbed his head to a beat no one else could hear. Then there he was, in front of her. A man, maybe in hi...
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