#empty train station

[jupeter-andrews]

Day 14: Coffee | Empty Train Stations

📷 (c) dlxmedia.hu, Robert Arthur, Claudio Mezzasalma

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"Your coffee, Uncle Titus," Jupiter approached with a warm cup.

Titus Jones nodded happily and beckoned his nephew to sit.

The two Joneses were waiting for the retired train conductor. It was a big opportunity for the salvage yard—collecting materials from the closed station.

"There's something calming about empty train stations," Uncle Titus began. "Your father used to drag me to investigate empty buildings. One time we were trapped in."

"Sounds dangerous," Jupiter commented.

"That's what I told him every time. He didn't listen, of course."

Uncle Titus chuckled and looked pointedly at Jupiter. "Exactly like someone I know."

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[rosy-cheeked-girl]

assorted dances with loneliness

i fall asleep on a bed of moss holding your hand, or perhaps clutching at the shape of it. you know how it is. how fitting that even when i have found someone who will stay beside me i continue to convince myself you cannot possibly be real. this is why i dance alone, why i taught myself to twirl to the rhythm of my own humming, my own made-up songs. they were tangoes, and waltzes too and maybe it was you who i thought of in my arms but far more likely you are a creature of my imagination and there is no moss at all, no forest, no hand to hold and this is, instead, an empty train station where the train whistles hum and i dance to the echoes of liveliness, and i feast upon dreams made of fears determinedly not thinking about my own. let us devour our own spirits. let the train never come. let me go on dancing, oh, let me go on waiting for you.

[starfate]

Nothing is more jarring than to see the streets and train stations of you countries biggest tourist trap (In my case Amsterdam) close to empty. That really hits the reality of the situation home.

[justmemyselfandthemoon]

[unitedrandom]

S2E2 Penny dreadful

This is so unrealistic. I've never seen an empty station in London.

[equinefeather]

[scatter-heart]