:: something has gone terribly wrong with the D train.
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:: something has gone terribly wrong with the D train. It started after 59th street where the train goes express gaining speed as the stations of the upper west blur by and in a blink you’re at 125th st. — or that is how it works normally — but this time the train never stopped— we hit Harlem at 60mph and only kept accelerating— and then the Bronx stations came fast too fast to read the signs— for a bit everyone was just sitting quiet thinking this was some kind of normal detour. 1/ #fiction
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:: something has gone terribly wrong with the D train. It started after 59th street where the train goes express gaining speed as the stations of the upper west blur by and in a blink you’re at 125th st. — or that is how it works normally — but this time the train never stopped— we hit Harlem at 60mph and only kept accelerating— and then the Bronx stations came fast too fast to read the signs— for a bit everyone was just sitting quiet thinking this was some kind of normal detour. 1/ #fiction
But when the train came out into daylight shuddering like a rocket ship? that is when we all began to scream.
We pulled on the emergency brakes— a tall man with powerful arms managed to pry the door between the next car open a crack but that only added the noise of the rushing air to our cries of terror— some poor teacher had been marking exams and the car filled with red-inked papers—
outside the Bronx was a blur of green and brick buildings and the train was only going faster. 2/
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But when the train came out into daylight shuddering like a rocket ship? that is when we all began to scream.
We pulled on the emergency brakes— a tall man with powerful arms managed to pry the door between the next car open a crack but that only added the noise of the rushing air to our cries of terror— some poor teacher had been marking exams and the car filled with red-inked papers—
outside the Bronx was a blur of green and brick buildings and the train was only going faster. 2/
@futurebird
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But when the train came out into daylight shuddering like a rocket ship? that is when we all began to scream.
We pulled on the emergency brakes— a tall man with powerful arms managed to pry the door between the next car open a crack but that only added the noise of the rushing air to our cries of terror— some poor teacher had been marking exams and the car filled with red-inked papers—
outside the Bronx was a blur of green and brick buildings and the train was only going faster. 2/
Someone said we should duck and cover— but I couldn’t look away I wanted to see where we were going.
As the speed increased the rattle of the wheels on the tracks grew more violent beneath us. Now and then we’d catch a little air-
This was only more ominous since most of the buildings were below us now. It was getting harder to move around the train the acceleration had us pinned place.
With a final violent shudder that cracked every window we broke the sound barrier.
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Someone said we should duck and cover— but I couldn’t look away I wanted to see where we were going.
As the speed increased the rattle of the wheels on the tracks grew more violent beneath us. Now and then we’d catch a little air-
This was only more ominous since most of the buildings were below us now. It was getting harder to move around the train the acceleration had us pinned place.
With a final violent shudder that cracked every window we broke the sound barrier.
3/I knew I would live to see it. High Speed Rail has come to America at long last. 4/4
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@futurebird
That sounds terrifying.@Callalily ah should have tagged this a fiction!
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I knew I would live to see it. High Speed Rail has come to America at long last. 4/4
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@futurebird I totally missed that fiction hashtag in the first post and checked the news for a subway crash.
@mikemccaffrey I thought it was too wild to take seriously
my apologies
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