Month: August 2023
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10: Just a Rain Ago
You can’t hear the rain when you’re inside the Hypersonic Express. The train is racing at one thousand miles an hour through a fully enclosed, vacuum sealed, plex tunnel. It allows plenty of natural light inside and you can see the seasons pass and the precipitation fall in various sized drops all year long, but…
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09: Not This Year
The holidays were always a busy time aboard the Hypersonic Express: So many people in a hurry, carrying pies, jackets, and babies, and trying in vain to not get in everyone else’s way. On this particular holiday morning, a rough-worn man in a retro Jean jacket boarded the bus intent upon seeing his kids for…
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08: Don’t Ever Miss Your Train
If you missed your train, there was nothing you or anyone else could do. The vacuum sealed system was inaccessible except for the thirty seconds or so during boarding. So if you missed it, you simply had to wait the fifteen excruciating minutes before the next one came around. On this particular morning, Benjamin had…
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07: Alone but Not Forgotten
Once there was a boy who rode the Hypersonic Express every day with his father. He was six years old, and he prided himself for now being in the second grade. He was becoming a man, and someday he would be a great businessman like his father, who was never late for work and never…
Grant Pearson 