Non-Fiction | Short Story | Homelessness | Helplessness

A Fleeting Thought, Then A Moment Lost, In The Subway

What can I do to heal this world? Overthink.

Scarlet Ibis James 🦩
The Creative Collective
2 min readDec 28, 2023

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Two homeless people in the subway.
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The train's door opened at a stop that was not mine. On the platform, I saw two people with thick clothes and coats. They had all their possessions in various bags arranged in a…

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Scarlet Ibis James 🦩
The Creative Collective

My stories burst out of me, spilling joy, I hope, here and there.