I caught her staring at me staring at another woman. She has a brown leather satchel between her wide-spread feet. Black combat boots and black pantyhose that are close to ripping. Short black skirt, a black cardigan draped over her lap, a book on top of that. She is reading it, underlining in pen as…
Category: Subway Inspirations
People watching on the subway
Arts and Crafts Time
It is arts and crafts time on the train. She sits on a seat in the middle of the train with a small bag full of wire strands and green tape. She rips off a decent sized piece of tape and wraps it around the wire quickly, efficiently, and neatly. When she finishes a strand…
Wintry
He has on dark brown corduroy pants and a tan jacket with a high popped collar with metal buckles that remind me of hot topic coats and straight jackets. He has on tinted glasses, almost too light to be considered sunglasses, leather straps with buckets at the cuffs and collar, all of them done up…
Flamingo Sneakers
She has flamingos on her flat sneakers and rhinestones on her black fishnets. Her eyelashes are fake and pitch black, a sharp contrast to her milky white skin and curly, tousled auburn brown hair. She has a headband with a big pink bow on it and her lipstick is a deep wine red. Her outfit has…
Black and Leather
Black leather briefcase, black leather ankle high dress shoes, and white, black, and navy blue argyle/plaid socks. His pants are black and nicely pressed, his black overcoat has its collar popped and he holds his coffee in his right hand, resting it on his briefcase, his left holding his newspaper. He is listening to something…
The Small Details
She is wearing brown leather clogs with knee high socks that have thick green bands alternated with tion bright green stripes. She is sewing the frayed inside edge of her burnt orange backpack back together as the train shakes and rocks its way downtown. Her hands are thin and worn, veins and nerves creating a…
One Arm In
She has one arm in her coat. Thick, wavy brown hair pulled back into a low ponytail. Aviator shades on, one strand of hair curling down and around one arm of the glasses. Her shirt is white with flowers and doughnuts on it. She has a lighter weight button down on over that. A chunky…
Leather Bucket Hats
I never knew there were such a thing as leather bucket hats, but there are and this man on the train is wearing one. It looks a tad small for his head, but matches his leather jacket well enough that it is not weird. He is asleep, arms crossed over his chest and around a…
Too Cool, But Not Really
He walks on the train, goes straight to the door to the next car, grabs the bar over my head and plants one foot on the door, leaning back on the door in a smooth, practiced move. He has black shiny dress shoes, black pants, and a knee length brown coat. He looks super badass…
Welcome to Earth! No One Cares.
There is a man yelling in the middle of the train. I believe he is speaking Spanish, but I have my headphones on and only know that I don’t recognize the words he is spouting during the lulls between songs. He has been going strong since we left the 145 street station and we are…
Something I wrote in the back of a Book
Sometimes when I am reading, I will see something or think of something I want to remember so I will write it down in a book, forget about it and then find it months or years later. This is a subway post I wrote in the back of The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories…
Little Gentian 