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Submitted to Contest #168
The smoke permeated everything. Doors opened. Then shut. The conductor stomped by, his shell-toed shoes banging down like a gavel as he flogged his feet down the stairs, judging every last one of us – the final car passengers imprisoned on his train. The A/C rattled above me (I was sitting right below the whole unit) like a pair of keys that I heard clanging from the conductor’s hip, and it seemed to have the paradoxical power of blowing not just cold air but his hot breath straight into my face. “Hey! Can you read? That seat’s taken!” the...
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