She reminds me of a high powered woman who works in my building, if she had gone to seed. She is wearing turquoise satin pants and has a backpack with technicolor cats on it. Her hair is poofy and her bangs fall into her face while the rest is pulled back into a high bun….
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Sleeping and Pouting
He looks like he is sleeping and pouting, not reading on his tablet which I can clearly see him fiddling with, flipping through articles of the Economist. Head tilted down to look at the screen, his eyes lowered to read, he appears asleep, but his lips slightly pushed out giving him a resting pout face….
This Week Ten Years Ago
The Week of 4/2/2006 Witty one liner: Silence is golden….but screaming is fun! Quote of the week: [cut out] Planner Quote: “What is now proved was once imagined” – William Blake Offbeat oddity (courtesy of the planner): A fly flies slower when the sun is behind the clouds than when it’s sunny Happy belated…
Empowered Bystander
But it didn’t feel like it. I felt like shit and as though I hadn’t done anything good at all. It felt like the penultimate Straight White Cis Girl moment. Standing there on the train after a long day at my cushy job, and an hour on the archery range with my boyfriend helping me…
Not Quite Motorcyclist
He looks like a motorcyclist except for his blinged out chrome gold sneakers and the furry scarf that tucks down into his well-fitted black-leather jacket. His form-fitting black jeans are soft and worn in, with three seams at the knees and a checkered pattern between the knees and his front pockets. He doesn’t have much…
Two bags
Two bags between his feet. One is very full, straining a little at the seams. It is olive green with a supple, warm auburn leather on the bottom and black fabric for handles. The second bag is less full and black. His shoes are dark brown leather with little holes for ventilation. His dark blue…
Caught
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…
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…
Little Gentian 