Repose Verse (reposeverse) wrote in repose, @ 2015-12-19 20:12:00 |
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Entry tags: | *news, ~plot: train |
[Winter Event Invitations]
[Older residents of Repose, the ones that sit on rockers in summer and gum teeth as their grandchildren play in the yard, they tell stories of the last winter train ride. It's a tradition, you see, if traditions can be things that happen once in a generation, once in a lifetime. The tales they tell are marvelous. The train, they say, was opulent, like a thing from a fairy tale. No one shies away at the memory of it, and no dark expressions cross features at remembering. Old women remember being young and wearing their mother's pearls, and old men remember a night spent romancing in tails and snowy white.
The following morning, as if by chance or holiday wonder, the invitations arrive.]