Train

Arrival

       I brushed my long crimson hair behind my ear. The breeze licked across my face with an eerie whisper.
"Where am I?" I thought with concern
It had been years since I really left my apartment. Crammed inside with pages of unfinished work strewn about.
       I quit my day job at the QuikTrip near my residence to pursue my novel I had dreamed to write. It was a reckless decision, I know, but it felt right in the moment.
        Decisions aren't my forté and I tend to make them irrationally. This one really screwed me over though. With my resources drained and all creative energy spent on a worthless par-baked product, I left the apartment looking for work. Maybe something better than a convenience store.
         Lady Luck hasn't been good to me however. With a twenty in my pocket and broken dream burdening my heart, I set foot in a world of unforgiving fools, ashamed to admit I had become one of them.
         All I remember was a gust of wind, a twin to the one caressing my body now. I blinked and I was gone. My job application had slipped from my fingers and the face of my potential employer melted away. The smell of fried chicken and the crisp morning air faded. I was no longer standing in front of a Chicken Express or a stranger, but rather a glittering sunset, and swirling sands bleaching the sky.
         I took a small step forward and heard the creak of dated floorboards beneath my feet. After a brief scan of my surrounding I sat astonished.
"A...train station? In the middle of a desert?"
         The tracks went on for was seemed like forever on either side, disappearing into the vague horizon. They looked like they hadn't been used in ages, battered by rust and bludgeoned by sand. Despite its great age this quaint station was quite magnificent. Small but roomy. Embellished like a palice.
          Alone and vigilant I stood, red hair still whipping in the wind and grains of sand fluttering off my eyelashes. I felt a shift in the earth and heard a distant hiss. To the right I looked and despite how unbelievable the situation was, a train was indeed approaching.
"How?" I contemplated.
          As it continued to approach I felt my heart flutter, like it was anticipating something I wasn't aware of. As if something important was waiting for me, waiting to be discovered.