Month: July 2023
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06: Not All Who are Lost are Alone
Ruth watched as a teenage girl boarded the Hypersonic Express in ripped jeans, tennis shoes, and an overstuffed school backpack. Except Ruth could tell the pack wasn’t filled with the rectangular and sharp corners of textbooks, but rather with the soft contours of clothes. She looked closer at the girl who refused to meet eye…
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05: Not All Who Wander are Lost
A man called Joe joined the passengers of the Hypersonic Express. They all were sure he was a homeless druggie and ignored him. He was dressed in rugged cargo pants two sizes too big and a stained white t-shirt. His untrimmed beard clung to his chest, and a receding hairline emphasized his long pockmarked face.…
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04: In a World of Business
She took this train every morning. There and back. There and back. There and back. There and back again. Five days a week with a weekend that was filled with housework and grocery shopping and calling her parents to make sure they hadn’t died yet. It was tiring. She didn’t complain, mind you. She enjoyed…
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03: Talking to Air
There was a teen who rode the Hypersonic Express every day to work to support his parents and nine younger siblings. He took pride in his ability to take care of his family, though sometimes he was afraid he’d never be able to get out and begin his own. On this particular day, this young…
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02: My Kingdom for a Song
There once was a three-year old girl whose most prized possession was a stuffed lavender unicorn with one green button eye and one slightly larger black. Her single mother took her every day to the train station on the way to daycare. On this day, they arrived a bit earlier than usual, and the little…
Grant Pearson 