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Raleigh by Railway
By Mike Bozart
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Familiar psecret psociety agents 32 and 33 take the Amtrak train from Charlotte to Raleigh in early November of 2015, searching for short story material under overcast skies ... and, boy do they ever find it.
This short story features a strange hotel air shaft, an uber-interesting CAT bus passenger, a curiously repeated phrase, a demolished house, a flooded creek, and concludes with a Liverpool FC match at a downtown tavern (London Bridge).
Approximately 3,500 words.
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Raleigh by Railway - Mike Bozart
Raleigh, the rapidly populating capital of North Carolina, was next on our list. Monique (Agent 32) and I (Agent 33) would elect to go by rail, as the iconic, roughly round, downtown Holiday Inn was only a ten-minute walk from the Raleigh Amtrak station.
We sat down at the end of a long wooden pew in the old Norfolk Southern freight office, the current Charlotte Amtrak station, about a mile and a half northeast of the center of uptown. Ten minutes later, at 11:30 AM, there was an announcement: Train 74 to Raleigh has been delayed 74 minutes due to freight traffic and track work. We expect it in here at 1:11.
Seventy-four, seventy-four. Hope the recorder picked that up.
What track work?
Monique asked.
Oh, they’re in the process of double-tracking the whole stretch between Charlotte and Raleigh, Agent 32.
Agent 32. He’s already switched the recorder on.
Oh, I didn’t know it was a shared single track, 33.
Well, most of it is. There are some sidings and existing double-track sections. They’re also eliminating the sharp curves for future high-speed trains.
The
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