Stories tagged “trains”

  • The commute

    Jerry dashed headlong down the steps, across the platform. He might have fallen onto the tracks, were it not for the train. He might have rushed onto the train, were it not for the doors. Then he was alone on the platform. At the height of rush hour. A...

  • A Hobo's Christmas

    In the yuletide season of 1931, there was not a great deal to be merry about anywhere on God’s green earth (or God’s brown earth, as the case was in most of the middle of His own blessed America). Folks were starving and broke. There were c...

    • Author: RicoLaser
    • Posted almost 3 years ago.
    • 5 out of 5

  • A Night with Three Gun Bill

    We often walked the tracks; it was faster. This night four of us walked under a waning moon, feeling our way along the ties. We sat down on a trestle to smoke, our legs dangling over. We heard something. A figure loomed in the glow, large and heavy foo...

  • The Last Car

    I smiled warmly at my wife. “Thank you, sweetie. It’s exactly what I wanted.” I held the red caboose to my chest, close to my heart. She smiled back at me and patted me on my knee. “I knew it was. You’re like an open book to me.” She gave m...

  • Fantasy Gaze

    Standing at the platform, a small sports bag warming my bare feet, there’s a train ticket in my left hand, a bloodied stiletto heel in my right and something missing inside. The midnight Starcross station is empty but for two teenagers kissing wetly ...