The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica 9 by Maxim Jakubowski

Author:Maxim Jakubowski [Maxim Jakubowski]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Publisher: Constable & Robinson
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Just Another Girl on the Train

Catherine Lundoff

People on the train always looked alike at first glance, she thought as she watched her fellow passengers from the corners of her eyes. It was a bad idea to look at them directly. She’d learned that her first year here riding the subway to her job downtown. There was that time the crazy man followed her several blocks from the station, shouting after her. Then there was that other incident involving the missionaries and those copies of The Watchtower that kept showing up in her mailbox. No, best to watch covertly over her book, let her eyes slide past as though reading the station signs when she looked up.

You got to see all sorts of interesting things that way. The Chicano boy with the dreamy eyes watching his girlfriend sleep on his shoulder. The old women dozing over their shopping bags or books. The heavily made up woman (or was she a man?) in the latex mini who kept checking her (or was it his?) watch and tapping one impossibly high heel restlessly against the train floor. She had a story made up for each and every one of them. That was the best part about riding the city trains; the stories never ended.

That woman across the aisle this morning, for instance. She must be worried about something from the way she sent nervous glances at the doors every time the train stopped. Between stops, she looked first at her watch, then at the floor, thin brown eyebrows meeting in a scowl over her long nose.

Once, the other woman’s small brown eyes met hers for an instant before they both looked away. The other woman’s gaze told her nothing really, held no obvious reason for the clear anxiety she was feeling. But there had been something there, something she couldn’t explain. When the woman got off at the next stop, she got up and followed her.

Why she did it, she never could say afterwards. But it was the beginning, this sideways path to follow a stranger for a glimpse into their lives. Was it that it made her own life seem less ephemeral when held up to the mirror of someone else’s? She couldn’t or didn’t want to answer that. She only knew that she was curious. That she needed to know something about this woman’s life and why she was so nervous.

Up and out of the station she went, trailing a half block or so behind her quarry, but still trying to look as if she knew where she was going. The crowds helped with that, swirling around to hide first her from the woman, then the woman from her. Something about the chase made her hot, made her think of the hottest, sweatiest sex she’d ever had. That part wasn’t about the woman she was following, or at least she didn’t think so. No, it must be about the hunt itself. She grinned a little to herself and followed the nervous woman around a corner.

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