Another creepy entry from me for Flash! Friday. This week's winner in "Finish That Thought" used a second-person POV. (And I've used it once before, in a short story.) So I thought I would try it here, as that perspective can be quite effective.
We needed to work off this picture.
But we've been encouraged to think outside the box and not use the photo literally. So here is "Long Train Running Away."
You
look at the train cascading away into infinity and have only one
thought. Escape. Escape from life, from this life. Escape from
the future, the future you dread, but whose script already has been
penned. In blood.
You
look at your past. Town to town to town. Mistake to mistake to
mistake. You wish you could get on the right track. But that train
derailed long ago.
You
look at the gallery of faces… radiant,
expectant. They beam like suns. You see only an eclipse. Look
happy.
They came to see a wedding, not a funeral. They’ll
see a funeral soon enough.
You
look at your maid of honor—your latest maid of
honor—with your face
of detachment as she gathers your ironically white train and gushes,
"You look beautiful." Perhaps, some
day, her too.
You
look at your next victim, blissfully naive on this, the happiest day
of his life, and tell him, “I do.”
Brrrrrr! Agree?
Now if you'll excuse me, I need to write 100 words for Janet Reid.
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