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Suitcase in hand, you head to the station.

Posted in Adventure on Aug 1, 2021

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Take the Breath

Submitted to Contest #47

Suitcase in hand, you head to the station. Your girlfriends' departure earlier that day, flying back to Canada by herself, had made those feelings of loneliness come back. You felt like you were back at the hospital, your lung collapsed from the pressure of the plane on the flight over to Venice, Italy. Doctors speaking to you and asking you questions with you having no real way to answer them back. No one to talk most days, except for Bridget coming to visit you while she teetered between stressed and panicked. Couldn't even sleep through t...

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A Change For the Better

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You pack your bag knowing that this is a change for the better. You are twenty two and still living with your parents so it’s definitely time to move out and start your own life. Because your parents live by Bucingham Palace you are going to move to a small apartment in Canterbury, so that you’re not too far away in case you need anything or they need you to come home for some reason. You have been offered a nice job as an editor by one of your parents' friends so you decide to take it, knowing that it is your best option for now. By train, ...

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The Toymaker's Frog

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"Anja, do me a favour," He peers at you through his rose tinted goggles, his grey bandholz peppered with dots of paint. Anja, that's your name. You put down a stack of dusty old books he told you to move to the rack ten minutes ago, dusting your hands as you ask in exasperation, "What?" From the second you step into this workshop he had been ordering you around like a maid, he did not even lift his head to look at you when you came. You, of course, are dissatisfied by how you are treated and regret this visit. You know you could have th...

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The Reason and the Unforgettable Revelation

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 The determination to walk away from her is sky-high. You can’t erase the images from your mind, and the power behind them is enough to amplify an entire city with hot electricity. And, as her lies echo around inside your mind, you walk briskly through the train station, suitcase in hand, a vulgar sense of dread and betrayal swirling in your stomach. If only you hadn’t come home early that day to surprise her with an early birthday gift. But you had. You just had to ruin everything by thinking of her, and getting her that sparkling ru...

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No Regrets

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Your fingers tremble as you lock the blue painted door, sealing your fate and leaving behind the pains and pleasures that had been yours to carry for years. The memories that stabilized you. The experiences that cut you down and open. The people you loved and hated. A new beginning. A new definition of Bittersweet. For the last time, you trace the small Sparrow engraved just below the deadbolt, and turn away. Suitcase in hand, you head to the Station, Painfully aware of what you had given up.  *** Brushing a small piece of lint off...

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Change

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Packing all of your things to make them all fit in a suitcase is quite daunting. That’s your whole life right there, all cramped and disorderly and haphazardly shoved into a suitcase that is barely keeping everything together that it needs a fragile label for the bag itself. It was a miracle it all fit. Though, you gave most of your appliances, books, and any other stuff you deemed bulky or unnecessary away. Finally, backpack slung over your shoulder, suitcase in hand, you head to the station. After finding yourself a seat by the window, yo...

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Play dead.

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You look concerned, watching through the window for hours now, and more anxious than normal. That could only mean that you saw the news. It is there, isn’t it? Terrible news, absolutely, but everything would be okay, you know that. You had been planning it for so long, that there were no mistakes. You made sure of that, there would be no problem. Could you stop? Why are you packing your clothes? Improvising in this kind of conditions is not good. You do not have a backup plan, when did you decide this? Was it today? After reading the news?...

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You Want to Be

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 Suitcase in hand, you head to the station. It is about time you get out of the house and start seizing life like everybody else.  Just as you reach the door you are stuck with the sudden fear that you have left your hairbrush sitting on your hardwood dresser upstairs. You quickly plop your purple hard shell suitcase on the couch and kneel down to open it to make sure that your plastic orange comb is nestled in the bristles of your blue dollar store hairbrush.  You see the pair of groom devices laying on top of the bed of ha...

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A Change Of Scene

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You’re about to walk out the door as if it’s a normal day. You’ve been wondering all night how you’ll manage this, going through different scenarios in your mind. Calm, you tell yourself. Keep calm. You’ve packed your case. You packed it last night, then found you couldn’t lift it over – well. You had to unpack it again so that you could chuck the empty case down, then chucked your clothes and other stuff over separately and repacked everything downstairs. With all the clambering you’ve had to do, and with every...

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A Very Important Date

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Suitcase in hand, you head to the station. You keep stealing glances at your watch. You don’t want to be late. You can’t be late again. Of course, you can be late. It’s not unforgivable to be a minute or five minutes or even ten minutes late. But you made a solemn promise to yourself that you fully intend to keep. Which is why it’s such a shame that your boss decided to keep you just that little bit longer than usual. Not even for anything important either, he just wanted to chat about nothing for a bit. You wanted to excuse yourself right...

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Revenge

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With a heavy breath you headed to the station with a suitcase in your hand. You bid goodbye to your near and dear ones before leaving to the station. You looked back to see your wife in tears. She doesn’t want you to know that she is crying, hence she covers her face. You didn’t want to hurt her but you had to go, to attend an emergency call. She waved bye with a heavy heart. You reached the station. Your train was yet to arrive. You sat on a chair reserved for passengers. You were exhausted by the tiresome work past few weeks. You had arran...

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Wakeup Call

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Rise and shine, sleepyhead, this is your wakeup call!“Ugh...”Come on, this is a big day! You really wanna sleep through the morning and miss our connection? I sure don’t!“Mmmm...”Pst, pst- Hey, dingus? Did you just pull a pillow over your head? Cause that’s not gonna help! I’m on the inside, remember?“Rrgh!”That’s it, why fight it? Up and at ‘em!“Hhhaagh. Okay.”Atta boy!***Funny how there are newspapers everywhere you go, huh? Sort of a multiversal constant. Hold on, don’t turn the page yet, I’m still reading it.“Do you know how to read this...

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Thoughts & Trials on the Tracks

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As an unexpected torrent of rain began to fall, you began to make out the form of the train station in front of you. You quickly rushed towards it after exiting a taxi you had taken from your home on the outskirts of the city. Your beating heart was rapid as you recalled the last words your mother had told you before leaving her for the beginning of a new life. Your mother had said only three things before saying goodbye: to be careful, to stay safe, and finally that she loved you dearly. Even though you didn’t think much of it at the moment...

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The Suitcase

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Suitcase in hand, you head to the station. It’s a hot day, you can feel the sweat bubble up under your collar. Despite the heat, you feel the rush of cold fear overwhelm you. It’s hot out. You’ll start to stink and people will notice. Not just the occasional whiff of body odor, but something much worse. The smell will conglomerate in people’s noses. They’ll alert others. Not many people are unaware of the smell of rotting flesh. Even though you wrapped the suitcase up tightly with garbage bags to keep the leakage at a minimum, you couldn’t g...

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The Wrong Kind of HELP

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You walk off the space harbor, compact backpack making your back sweat. You don’t know how much trouble you’re really in. Passing through security is a breeze; there’s nothing in that backpack that’ll get you arrested, no weaponry or genetically hijacked being or nearly-undetectable biochemical abomination. What’s in there is a target; a perfectly constructed decoy with a timer that ticks to your footfalls. But that’s not what you see. You see hope in the contents of the backpack; a map to a planet highly coveted by both the lofty planet tyc...

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