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Tag: train

“The Arc” by Nath Oddson
Fiction

“The Arc” by Nath Oddson

May 9, 2022May 10, 20221

From Atlanta to New York City, I went tripping, delivering packages, on buses and trains, stopping—three days—in Cincinnati. There’s the arc. Greyhound issues you an …

“The Red Worm” by Isaac Aday
Fiction

“The Red Worm” by Isaac Aday

May 11, 2020May 18, 20200

Sam Karrington’s size-six loafers kicked back and forth atop the wooden bench under the train stop awning. The train would be here soon, he thought—no …

“West” by James Goss
Poetry

“West” by James Goss

February 10, 2020August 19, 20200

A four-engine train engines idling diesel beside the iron fence mist herds of penned-in cattle earthen clouds settling low a rider crooning Huddie Ledbetter Goodnight …

“Symphorophilia, or Crash: 1898” by Michael Cantin
Poetry

“Symphorophilia, or Crash: 1898” by Michael Cantin

November 2, 2015July 9, 20170

To the rail Taken under duress, mid congress, my petticoats torn, I find myself bound to the track. Ostensibly, for ransom. But who pray tell, …

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