Five Your Home Town: Beat the Clock Round 3 Revised by Murphy's Rules "The Staircase"

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Sunday, January 23, 2005

Beat the Clock Round 3 Revised by Murphy's Rules "The Staircase"

I am standing on the platform at Atocha Train Station in North Madrid, breathing diesel fumes through my nose. I am twenty-two. Why the trains from Italy arrive here I cannot remember. The air is dry and sweet, the mountains barely visible in an orange and pink sunset. She steps off the train and... Sign in to see full entry.

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