Maryam Asjad
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There were only four people in the last car of the 1:44 train headed to ____. A young woman who looked to be about twenty one years old, but was in fact twenty six, sat by the window, her body tilted just enough for her to comfortably rest her hand on the last metal bar of the window. She wore a canary yellow dress adorned with white embroidery which fell down to her ankles but if she crossed her legs, it would lift just enough to let the man sitting diagonally across from her catch a glimpse of her smooth brown legs. The young woman would cross her legs every time the train stopped at a station, repeatedly kick her foot so that her dress would lift even higher while the train was stopped, and then, the second the train began to move again, she would uncross her legs and sit still until the next stop. With a particular cadence, she would look into the man’s eyes for the smallest fraction of a second just before she crossed her legs and just after she uncrossed them.
By Maryam Asjad4 years ago in Fiction
