Although I was in Germany on holidays, today I wasn't having a particularly good time. I'd misread the train timetable and missed the train I'd planned to catch. So instead of getting an off-peak hour train with few passengers, I was on a peak hour train. When I got on, most of the seats were already taken. Rather than asking people to move over or move the...
It had been another long and tiring day at work. Carl found himself rushing to get up the stairs and to the platform before his train left without him. As he brushed past a few people who were lazily standing around the platform entrance he thought he caught a glimpse of someone he knew. But not wanting to dwell on the point and miss the train he cut through...
Having a bad day and not enjoying his stay in the big city at all, with one inconvenience after another ruining his visit, now totally lost and disoriented while trying to go home to Pig's Holler, Kentucky, Billy Bob got on the wrong train. After already having come from Boston to make what he thought was his connection for home, now heading in the wrong dir...
CHAPTER 1 "Oh no not again!" I gasped as I realised that I had missed the early morning alarm again. This was the third time in the last month I would have to really rush to catch the 7.06 train commute to work. I had started at this big firm in the city less than 6 months ago moving here from the sticks after a desperately failed relationship went belly...
I've never written a "How to" before and didn't really set out to do so. It was just a collection of thoughts while trying to come up with a plot for a story. I put those musings together and came up with this: ***** OK, if you expected a handbook, you're not going to get it. Ultimately, it's up to you to come up with your own ideas. I'm not saying that an...
This is a true story that happened to me last year. At the time I didn't tell anyone because I was too embarrassed, but my husband encouraged me to write in and tell you all about it. He thought it was the most erotic thing he had heard of in years. So here goes. It was a hot summer day. Really hot. The train was crowded as I boarded and began the long tr...
It was with some fear and trepidation that I hiked up the ramp leading to Platform 3 at 6:48 pm. Once again, a meeting had run late, very late, causing me to miss my normal train. As my steps flattened out onto the level platform, I quickly scanned the mostly deserted platform. Since the bulk of commuters took the 5:25 train, as I usually did, that meant tha...
"Time!! Please put your pencils down and pass your examination booklets to the front of the room. Hope to see all of you next semester," the professor exclaimed. Having just completed his last exam of his first semester of college, Parker was overwhelmed with joy. He had spent the majority of the semester working up to that moment, spending endless hours in...
I didn't want to go visit my sister. School had just ended for the summer, and here I was, waiting at the train station to go to on a 5-hour train trip I didn't really want to take. I wanted to go to the beach, but no, instead, I would spend 5 hours on a train with a lot of weird old people and then visit my sister in her crappy apartment. The train had jus...
Scott smiled to himself as he stood on the platform, latte in one hand, free paper in the other. Five mornings a week he would climb aboard the same tube train to get to the same place of work at the same time of day. Life was monotonous everywhere other than in his head. But in his head, anything could happen, and most days on his way to work, anything and...