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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“Where was he?” by Abigail Oni

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I lost it all... In the midst of the crowd sitting in the worn-out shuttle train, all her senses are shut to the noises, smell and touch in the train filled with people from different part of the city. She had already made her decision, this world no longer welcomes her stay so she will sorrowfully leave the world to another place...if at all the place they all speak of exists. She is listening to her last music, the one she always loved and was once able to play in a grandeur dress to earn the standing ovation of thousands seated belo...

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“Train to Paradise” by Adrian Tan

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Nine-year-old Karen was an only child. She always felt lonely so when the opportunity came for a field trip with her friends, she signed up immediately. At the start of the journey, their class teacher told them they were taking the train to paradise. “Forget all the fumes, the smog, the heat and everything else technology promised. Leave those behind. We are going back to nature where everything is fresh, green and cool,” their teacher, Mr Kong said. Everyone settled down as the familiar electric whine of magnets started. The train elev...

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“Last Stop” by Rani Jayakumar

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The doors slid closed silently, and muzak piped in from overhead. Charles sat by the door, his jacket slung over his arm, the bag strap across his chest. He could see his reflection in the dark glass - the haggard face, grayed eyebrows, brown sagging skin. Years of watching and waiting were in that face. He flexed his hands open and closed. They had manipulated those controls, sliding forward and back, pressing and twisting, so many times. He felt the buzzing under his feet, the telltale but tiny lurch that indicated the train woul...

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“The passenger ” by Ido Peretz

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Walker sat in the train just as any other passenger, Metallica bursting through his earphones, he looked at all the people in the train going somewhere for some reason just like him, He didn’t know their reasons and they didn’t know his just human beings living their lives.He saw good-looking people and ugly-looking people and all kinds of people, Walker wasn’t a handsome guy or a hideous guy he was just a guy he wasn’t fat or skinny although he did gain a few pounds since his time in the Special Boat Service.When Walker was 14 his parents d...

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“The Second Upsurge” by Ali Anthony Bell

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It’s 4:30 pm on Thursday April 15th, 2021 and Abel Pran Mody is travelling on a shoestring. He arrived two days before on the cheapest flight he could find from O’Hare to Indira Gandhi International Airport, $920, by Emirates Airlines. He booked into the Hotel Lotus at the airport for two nights at only $8 a night, and the next day he took a trip to the Taj Mahal. How could he come to New Delhi and not stop to see that wonder of the world? Now he’s sitting on a hard wooden seat in a crowded a 2nd class coach on an unreserved train from ...

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“COME LEAVE YOUR TROUBLES BEHIND YOU” by Mike Williams

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COME LEAVE YOUR TROUBLES BEHIND YOU Trevor stared out of the window of the moving train, packed with passengers at this hour of the morning. The scenery was impressive to most, but not to Trevor, as his mind was someplace else. He saw very little scenery of late. His stress levels blocked out many of life’s rewards and pleasures. At the Bay Boulevard station, Trevor disembarked from the train to walk to the ferry port. He thought how just two weeks ago he had arranged for this day as he walked. ...

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“Beggar with butterflies” by Neelmani Prashar

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Hi! I am Niharika, I am 27 years girl. I have peculiar background. I have begged for food, stole it when I was 7, I was an Orphan. Went to school the day I turned 9.I love trains because they were my house till I Got Adopted by a rich women name Jyanti Mehra. Jyanti means a person who is blessed with success and indeed she was a blessing for me. A perfect mother. She gave me more than I ever wish for. As Nobody knew when I was born so the day I got adopted was celebrated as my birthday. At school I was called a Rich beggar, lottery, etc. I h...

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“Fated Connection” by Michael McGee

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She stood on the platform. Her phone in her hand. The screen was still. A simple picture, saved for the future. She wanted to meet him. The person who was always there. The one she was somehow attached to. Why they had begun switching bodies they never found out. She was in his body. He was in hers. Their lives were distant, and ever so close. Their connection deepened through their interactions. Not just with one another; but those around them while they inhabited each other’s lives. “Will he even recognize me?” she wondered as the train p...

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“A trip back to nature. ” by Emmanuel Filibus

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It was a bright summer evening on September 12, in the year 2000. Add the sun faded behind the sky scrapers in view, unknown black figures emerged from the towering buildings. After two long hours on this 85 feet long train, Louis' trip out of town had become very grueling and uncomfortable. At this point his only solace was the window on the bus through which he gazed at the people and scenaries outside the moving vehicle during his journey across town. "Can you move over" said Louis' seatmate in a low pitched voice. Louis boiling with ang...

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“Baby Blue ” by S Mehjabeen

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The hustle and bustle of the busy train I sat on from Brighton to London, on my way to the hospital, mimicked my elation and the butterflies I felt inside my belly. It could be from the sheer excitement or from the baby that I was carrying kicking around inside it. I was 25 weeks into my pregnancy. The nursery had been painted with huge clouds from the bottom of the walls to the ceiling. It seemed to be the safest choice. We didn’t know yet if our unborn son would like trucks or animals more. Who was he going to be? A reflection of his fathe...

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“The bell rang” by Sambulo Kunene

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My job ends at 5:35pm and I leave the lot at about 6 o'clock after I have fixed myself for the eye to see. The train stops at exactly 6 15pm and I am always on time. This evening the train is crowded. We have shifting bodies muddling and hanging for dear life on the console and the leather loop that hangs overhead to keep us from falling after swaying left to right with the rails of the railroad. I love this time of the day. It is the only time that I have to myself and I also get to review the events of the day. Most in this particular trai...

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“Life In Colour” by Amy Jayne Conley

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The daily grind was the same every single day. The same cogs turning, the same train journey at precisely 7.06am filled the same bored faces staring at the same phone screens, scrolling with the same thumb, the same shit cup of coffee in the same hand. The same bump on the track would create the same coffee spills without fail, with the same curses muttered under the breath by the same people. The same station stops would spit out the same ruffled commuters heading the same way towards the same office blocks, and would feed the same sleepy c...

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“The five o'clock” by Gabi Rielle

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The train was late. Again. Great. Dolores sat, facing away from the platform. It hadn’t moved, though it was promised to depart at five. And it was now 5:30. Well, 5:28, to be exact. Twenty-eight minutes late. Bag in hand – or rather bags, plural – Dolores failed at resting comfortable on the five o’clock train heading west through Roxbough, up across the riverbank. Though she had planned on getting home early to avoid the traffic, also called the horrifying-claustrophobia-of-sweat-infused-strangers-smooshed-together-against-their-will t...

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“Goddess of Joy ” by Jaskee NANDA

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She stared at the crowd. Bustling and shoving, everyone had their own life. Here she stood, or sat, every day, waiting. And waiting. And waiting.Waiting for who, or what, no-one knows. Many see her everyday asthey pass, but none speak.That day, as she sat on an old bench, an officer approached her.He was new and had seen her sit there for the past month, before leaving to whoknows where. She never got on the train."Miss, what are you doing ?" he asked. He wore aclassic blue uniform and had black hair and eyes."I am waiting." she replied in w...

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“One the Hike ” by Kimiko Stovall

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Miko Anase Nakamura extinguished her cigarette in the palm of her hand. Usually pain wasn’t a feeling she enjoyed. But when she did this, it reminded her of her dad. He used to do the same thing, never to her, but she always wondered what it felt like. When she tried her first cigarette the overwhelming urge to try it triumphed. At his funeral, she did it again, for convenience rather than curiosity. Yet it was the closest she had ever felt to him. Even now in the same school he went to at her age, she never felt further ap...

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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

“Where was he?” by Abigail Oni

“Train to Paradise” by Adrian Tan

“Last Stop” by Rani Jayakumar

“The passenger ” by Ido Peretz

“The Second Upsurge” by Ali Anthony Bell

“COME LEAVE YOUR TROUBLES BEHIND YOU” by Mike Williams

“Beggar with butterflies” by Neelmani Prashar

“Fated Connection” by Michael McGee

“A trip back to nature. ” by Emmanuel Filibus

“Baby Blue ” by S Mehjabeen

“The bell rang” by Sambulo Kunene

“Life In Colour” by Amy Jayne Conley

“The five o'clock” by Gabi Rielle

“Goddess of Joy ” by Jaskee NANDA

“One the Hike ” by Kimiko Stovall

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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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