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You embark on a train journey. Where do you go? Are you alone or with someone? Why are you traveling?
How to use this prompt: Using the picture and heading, create a short story or poem incorporating it. There is no right or wrong 'answer' just whatever your imagination sparks from the subject.
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I had been sitting in this train for quite some time, a long time, a time that was immeasurable. I don’t think I can even remember getting on this train, or much before my velveteen prison. I can however recall, before the endless cycle of train, a party, with friends and poker and the finest champagne only a prestigious actor could afford, Belgium chocolate liqueurs potent enough to knock out a herd of elephants. Just my friends and I, only, I can’t recall their names, or what they looked like. Just scratched-out faces, fragmented voices, and one blurry memory of someone pulling in stacks upon stacks of poker chips. It probably didn’t matter anyway, if I couldn’t remember them, they…