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Weekly Contest #168
Salt water blurred my vision as I stared numbly out the window, the gentle clickity-clack of the train adding to my hypnotic gaze. I blinked, encouraging a small tear to release its grip and fall down my cheek. Then another, and another. I sniffed and let them fall freely, no longer needing to maintain a solid front. I was alone, there was no one to see me cry, no one to remain strong for. The day’s events washed through my mind in unrelenting cycles. Ebbing and flowing like a tide, drifting between would have and could have, words said a...
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