Start your story with someone sitting on a crowded train and end it with them looking out over beautiful natural scenery.

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“The Memories Nature Holds” by Samantha Rogers

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The air was thick and warm, as bodies pushed against each other and voices raised over one another. Rosalie weaved through swarms of people, clutching her purse to her chest. She frantically searched up and down the narrow walkway for her station number. At last, it caught her eye. Her breath was ragged as she strode over and slipped her ticket from out of her pocket. She approached the burly man who stood blocking the trains cabin door, his face hardened into a scowl. Rosalie slipped the man her ticket as he peered over his glasses to check...

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“Good Night” by Beth RL

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I can smell the odors of the thousand other individuals who have sat in this stiff rubbery seat before me, the stale BO of a hundred sweaty men who have run to catch the last train of the night out of the city with their musty brown coat jackets flapping from the inertia of their movement and their hard black briefcases flailing at their sides. I can picture them waddling, ungraceful, their lumpy bodies bursting out of the white button-down that never once fit. I get a waft of the countless babies who have spit up on their caretakers, the pa...

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“Pinwheels” by Heather Ann Martinez

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Pinwheels By Heather Ann Martinez Josiah was sitting on the left side of the crowded train. Periodically, he smiled at the elderly woman who woke herself up each time she kicked his leg. Josiah was tall and tried to curl his arms in and crossed his legs out in front of him. The woman next to him stored her suitcase underneath the seat they shared across from the elderly woman and three young men dressed in army uniforms. It was difficult for all of them to not touch each other as every other row of seats were equally crowded. There were ...

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“The Millennial Festival” by Lunny Muffin

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“Damn it” he thought. “I’m going to be late on my first day.”The crowd was not moving. The invaders had occupied every inch of the train. They had moved randomly and uncoordinated, filling into the train platforms and eventually into the cabins. The onlookers just stared with confusion, and the commuters watched with deep annoyance. The crowd was full of young and old people, each wearing colors and masks of every kind. Today was a very special day on the city, it was the Millennial festival. The crowd pushed the commuters and continued...

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“Trainfishing” by Nikita Linivenko

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I give up on trying to read the Irvine Welsh novel, what with the bloke across from me yammering on. “David Bowie was such a big fan of Shallow Grave, that’s why he let Danny Boyle use his music in Trainspotting.” I nod along and out the corner of my eye tick off the people shuffling past periodically up and down the car. Much like Lavrentiy Beria, I have a knack for names and faces, but mostly faces, a nack which I, much like Stalin’s personal bitch-boy, use to screw over just about everyone I lay my eyes on. Know that bit in Fight Club, ...

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“A Little Advice” by Dzyun .

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Zohair (Zoo-hair) raced across town. He had a bagel in one hand and a trunk-style suit case in the other. He climbed down stone steps and finally made it to the train station just before the big line began to form. He found a bench and set his bag on the ground and began to eat his bagel. He checked his watch, there was only fifteen minutes until the train arrived, but this train was always either early or late. The station was over loaded with people and their over loaded bags. Their were families, business men and women, and a few who Zoha...

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“When She Fell” by Aoife J

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Sarah adjusted her head against the hot glass. With the smug sun belting through the window and the knee of a tightly suited man digging into her, she was regretting her choice of transportation. She found it fitting that her final decision was one of regret. It was in keeping with the theme of her life. The man sitting next to her seemed totally unaware of his wandering knee. He spoke into his phone at a volume so high one would think he was combatting the noise inside a fighter jet cockpit, and not the modest sounds inside the carriage o...

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“An author’s indulgence (In the story at last)” by Ayesha 🌙

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The train dropped him off in the forest. It was a long trip, but he doesn’t mind that much. Except everyone kept shoving him. He couldn’t see any of their faces, but it was annoying. It took some energy not to get off too early, but he controlled himself. The forest was too good to miss. It is peaceful and large, and goes on for miles and miles. It snowed yesterday and it’s snowing now, light fluffy snow coasting to the ground. The circle of trees are topped with frost and sunshine, though it’s getting darker now. His footsteps make tiny imp...

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“The journey home” by Alison Clayton

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Jenny looked at her watch. Just made it. She’d been lucky to make it onto the train. With the weather the way it was this November evening, meant there were plenty of others in the same position as her, trying to make their way out of London on the 5.05 train to Birmingham. Dark already, it had been a hell of a miserable day. The wind was already mounting and had several times turned her umbrella inside out on the way to the station. She had left it in the nearest rubbish bin, resolving to buy another as soon as possible. Now darkness had fa...

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“Rusty train to Auntie San ” by Ja'siah Bufford

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Holding onto the gift that I held so dearly took a price. The only way to reach auntie San was to board the train. There were bad reviews about the train,but she insisted I go on. With every movement of the train you can hear how old and rusty it was. My mother and father would have never let me on this train if they knew where I was going. I stood up not wanting to sit in the avaliable set across me it had a wet news paper on it. Decorated with gum underneath. The train was crowded, too crowded. The train stopped and some got on the train w...

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“Stardirect Express” by Elizabeth Eckstein

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Crammed together like a survival meal in a tin can, I glance at the girl rubbing against my left side. She smiles awkwardly and looks down, blinking and chewing her lip. The guy on my right nods, his gnarled hands resting peacefully in his lap. ‘Someone meeting you?’ he asks, bending his neck to the side and nearly knocking mine. ‘That side?’ ‘Er, yes. Yes.’ My hands, no less gnarled, are not as quiet as his. They are fidgeting. Thumbing a piece of paper that has gone furry and frayed. ‘She’ll be there,’ I say, but only to myse...

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“Serenity” by Jillian Rex

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Start your story with someone sitting on a crowded train and end it with them looking out over beautiful natural scenery. Serenity The train was hot, it wasn't one of those modern trains with spacious seating and air conditioning. No, this train was overflowing beyond capacity. Every conceivable space was occupied by a hot, sweaty, breathing body. There were people piled on the roof, hanging from the windows, the train attendants literally had to push someone into the train while the doors closed because it was so packed tigh...

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“Ghost Passenger” by Casandra Kay Johnson

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“Ticket please.” Said the man at the gate hand held out waiting for the ticket, he looked at the ticket then at it’s owner making sure they belonged together, they appeared to “ Says here that your seated in Car 3 so your in the right place do you have any bags you would like to check in ma’am?” The young lady shook her head. She had brought nothing with her, she wanted nothing from this place she was leaving for the first time in the 23 years she had been alive, a place she intended never to lay eyes again. “Very well then you...

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“If Only” by Suyash Goylit

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If OnlyJamesMy bag falls on my lap as the train stops with a violent jerk. It seems crowded than usual, understandably so, this close to the holidays. I stand up to put the luggage in its place, making sure that it doesn’t give me a concussion at the next stop. Just as I’m about to take the seat I see a glimpse of her face as she takes a seat, a couple of rows ahead of me. The hair color is different but that’s definitely Rachel, the one that got away. She was my girlfriend in college. We then lived together for a couple of months after grad...

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“The First Road” by Aimee R.

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Rowan scratched on the paper with her pencil, sketching an outline of a monkey on a tricycle, her face deeply in thought. Wrong stroke! She thought. The eraser ripped through the paper as she stroked in through, removing meaningless lines. Frustrated, Rowan huffs and glances out the train window, stained with rain spots, bird droppings, and the wearing down of wind. Leah looked to the other side of the train, to just be disappointed by the packed amount of people on the other side of the train, blocking an otherwise decent view. Squeezed up ...

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Start your story with someone sitting on a crowded train and end it with them looking out over beautiful natural scenery.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 258 stories

“The Memories Nature Holds” by Samantha Rogers

“Good Night” by Beth RL

“Pinwheels” by Heather Ann Martinez

“The Millennial Festival” by Lunny Muffin

“Trainfishing” by Nikita Linivenko

“A Little Advice” by Dzyun .

“When She Fell” by Aoife J

“An author’s indulgence (In the story at last)” by Ayesha 🌙

“The journey home” by Alison Clayton

“Rusty train to Auntie San ” by Ja'siah Bufford

“Stardirect Express” by Elizabeth Eckstein

“Serenity” by Jillian Rex

“Ghost Passenger” by Casandra Kay Johnson

“If Only” by Suyash Goylit

“The First Road” by Aimee R.

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Write a story that weaves together multiple lives through their connection to a particular tree.

Write a story in which an endangered species (of plant or animal) plays a central role.

Set your story in a world living with the consequences of a climate apocalypse.

Write about a community that worships Mother Nature.

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