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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“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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“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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“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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“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 magic tree” by Macie DeVilbiss

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Here I was again sitting on the subway just another weekend on my way to dad’s house. Then suddenly the train unexpectedly stopped. Everyone was flung forward, I looked out my window and we were in the middle of nowhere. when I looked out my window all I could see for miles was the woods and lots of beautiful flowers I knew what a few of them. My mom had the biggest garden you could have ever seen it was awesome, I always do my homework after school there in a pretty patch of marigolds on a bench me and my dad made before the divorce. I miss...

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“The Train Ride to Sambisa Forest” by UKPEVIEGRACE Francis

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My Dear soldier, As you go to war remember to come back home for Christmas, I will be waiting for you outside our home to kiss you and hand you our child. It is a pity that you will not be around when Jason comes but I will definitely keep him safe until you return. I know our goodbye will leave a nagging pain in my heart and I will be unable to say farewell properly as you leave so I took out time to write this letter and slip into your backpack. Go with my love and the love of our child. I know you will bathe in gunpowder but promise me i...

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“Wanted For Death” by Advik Godbole

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I looked at the train ticket and again to the crowded seats in front of me. I sat down along with two men who wore blue suits and had suitcases.I put my own in front of me and sat back. I patted my coat pockets to make sure I had everything with me. I straightened my tie and took off my hat.The two men briefly glanced at me and turned away, hugging their cases to their legs. They might have been criminals, judging from their nervous seating position.I patted my holster under my coat to make sure my gun was there. Soon, the train was set into...

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“Foresters in Danger” by Justin Barnum

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As I wake up, my eyes still closed, I hear a soft hum buzzing in my ears. The bees have likely come by to check out the Spring flowers again. As I listen further, I hear the babbling brook down by the creek, but something about it sounds different. A sudden jolt causes me to open my eyes shock fills me. I am not in the meadow, as I am every morning when I wake. I appear to be on a train, rumbling down the tracks to some unknown destination. I look around slowly, trying to comprehend what I am seeing. Confusion must be etched on my face be...

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“"Please use me! Use us!"” by Emma Harris

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“Are you really sure that you’re okay with this?” Namjun asked his friend again. Jun turned his head away from the side where he had been flirting with a girl and looked at his friend.“What?” Jun asked. “Are you really okay to come on this trip with me? I mean - closing your restaurant and everything?” Namjun clarified quietly as he glanced down at his feet before looking up again to his friend's eyes that were shining with a look of seriousness that Namjun rarely ever saw. Jun’s next words seemed to contradict his eyes but Namjun knew ...

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“Welcome To The Eastern Highlands” by Gabriel Mutongi

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A train ride is an amazing if not daunting experience, and Jojo is pretty much aware of this. While,he had paid for some rides to his rural home,he had equally stolen others taking advantage of the chaos that usually characterize the economy class compartment. And although today,he has money enough to pay,he decides to play the hide and seek game with the train conductor once again. After all the economy class is overly packed with standing passengers pushing, shoving and breathing heavily down each other's neck all for this cheap ride...

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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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“Me and You Versus the World” by T.H. Sherlock

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London, PaddingtonRichard tried to ignore the dull ache that squeezed his legs like an iron fist as he sat waiting for the train to depart. He’d arrived early at the station that afternoon. Past experience had taught him how crowded the carriages could get, and he’d not wanted to risk having to stand for the first leg of the journey. Now that he’d secured a seat, he felt less nervous and tried to make himself as comfortable as he could within the confines of the small space. He stretched his legs out gingerly, wincing at the pain, whilst wai...

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“Life alike a Train” by A BK

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[Beware of language] "I'm lost…" ……. I sat in this crowded train, filled with people unknown to me and surely don't give damns about one another, but oh well, so do I. Today, I finally became jobless. It wasn't completely my fault, but then again, who's gonna listen to me? I am quite a loser when it comes to handling things that surely help me to keep moving forward. After all, it was my failure that she left me, my family. She was a wonderful woman but just one mistake took her away from me… well, I agree there were more than on...

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“Overland” by Chelsea Iversen

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Aunt Lizzie sent money to Western Union. That’s how I ended up on the train. I didn’t want to be late, so I ran from the Western Union to the station with my coin purse jangling inside my traveling case. There wasn’t much else in the case. The old dress from Mama’s closet, her hat.Now, the view outside passes by quickly, but I’m not worried about the view. I’m thinking about the caramel cream the conductor, Mr. Thomas, snuck me, like a piece of stolen gold, getting soft in my palm. I lay the caramel cream on the table in front of m...

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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

“A trip back to nature. ” by Emmanuel Filibus

“Life In Colour” by Amy Jayne Conley

“The five o'clock” by Gabi Rielle

“One the Hike ” by Kimiko Stovall

“Baby Blue ” by S Mehjabeen

“the magic tree” by Macie DeVilbiss

“The Train Ride to Sambisa Forest” by UKPEVIEGRACE Francis

“Wanted For Death” by Advik Godbole

“Foresters in Danger” by Justin Barnum

“"Please use me! Use us!"” by Emma Harris

“Welcome To The Eastern Highlands” by Gabriel Mutongi

“The bell rang” by Sambulo Kunene

“Me and You Versus the World” by T.H. Sherlock

“Life alike a Train” by A BK

“Overland” by Chelsea Iversen

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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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