Victims of War – Dorothy Davies – 600 words (Horror)

The station is the passing through place for the young men off to the war zone. The porter sees them go...

Victims of War

Do you not think a train whistle is the loneliest sound in the world? When it echoes across the countryside at night, does it not tear at your heart? As the train leaves the station for places unknown to me, does the whistle not seem to ring with loneliness because you are being left behind?

Or is it just that I think so, because I am here on this station – because trains are my life?

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