It’s time for #PhotoStoryChallenge! Write the start or part of a story based on the image below. One rule: someone has to be running from something and you must use the words “put it down.” Optional challenge: write it as a screenplay. #WriteFightGifClub #writingprompt #amwriting pic.twitter.com/gKI22kcGcr

— Radina Valova (@RadinaValova) March 29, 2018

They told me to put it down. So I did. Now I watched as the train rumbled down the track, taking them – and it – further away from me. I wonder: did it ever occur to them that I was holding onto it for their sake? Oh well. They’ll figure it out soon enough. In the meantime…

I buy another ticket, slipping onto the next train going the other way. The more distance between that….thing…and me, the better.