• A man of average height and average weight approached the ticket counter. He wiped his hands on the faded, stained blue jeans he was wearing and nodded at the other man behind the counter.
    "I have a ticket to retrieve," he said.
    "Departure," the man behind the counter said. His eyelids drooped forward, nearly covering pale, blue irises.
    "Uh, seven forty-five." They were both wearing hats; the train station employee's was crisp and green. The other man's was a baseball cap.
    "Where are you departing from?"
    "Oh, uh, here. Isn't everyone?"
    "It's policy. I have to ask." the employee said impatiently.
    "Oh. Okay."
    "Name?"
    "Adrian," the man said. He looked around. All over the walls of the train station were schedules and announcements, protected by smudged glass. The roar of a passenger train could be heard from the tracks outside.
    "Last name?"
    "I don't have a last name." Adrian told him.
    "Everyone has a last name," Puzzled. Annoyed. The ticket worker's face held nothing back.
    "I don't," Adrian said again.
    "If you don't give me your last name, sir, I can't give you your ticket." he glanced at the phone on his desk and rolled his eyes.
    "I don't even need your god damn ticket," Adrian muttered. He waved his hands in the man's face, turned around, and ran out of the station. The man watched Adrian run until he couldn't see him anymore. He sat down in his chair behind the counter and closed his eyes completely, breathing heavily. An old woman sat on a wire bench beside the station. She whistled quietly to herself through lips covered in dark lipstick. At seven forty-five, she stood up and left the station through the green door. She boarded the train outside and it rolled away. The man working there took his coat and locked up the station, turning the lights off on his way out. The tracks were still, and the evening was quiet as he walked to the small lot behind the building. There was one car left, a red sedan that he unlocked with a shiny key. He took the back roads to an apartment building on the south end of town. Adrian was walking past outside.