Longings

The Soul Of My Life

This is a short story I wrote for The Runaway Train Challenge on Vocal. If you like it, please read it there!

Every night, I boarded the train. It arrived as I drifted off to sleep. I could hear it coming. The rhythmic sound it made and the longing call of its whistle. Every night, I would travel to places I had been before. I would disembark the train and the conductor would nod, as if…