The Train Goes Nowhere

Andrew Richardson
Young Writers Project
Writing prompt #30

The Train Goes Nowhere

The old man sat by his lonesome towards the back of the train, and a spider began to crawl up his beard as if to say hello. Nothing was the same, now that everything; his family, his job, his memories, his life, were now lost. The old man his eyes from the deep sleep that he was put into.
He noticed a drunkard in the corner. She took to coma like a tired boy teeters back and forth because he’s so exhausted that he can barely stand up.
Five men were in the other corner playing dice. The cup, which had been used foe decades, looked like it had been thrown away, then reused a thousand times over. But the dice still rolled out of it and down to the other end of the train cart like an avalanche crashing down a mountain.
Now, as the fog steamed through the gunshot holes in the train like poisonous gas fills up a room, he took a good look at the people he had encountered and he noticed that his life was not over. He had just begun to live. He didn’t want to be stuck on this train for the rest of his life.
So, the old man brushed the spider off of his beard as if to say goodbye and he shaved his beard and jumped off of the train and entered the new world in which he had been searching for his whole life.