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Call of the Void
CW: SUICIDAL IDEATION
Mrs McLean was perched on a bench at the mostly empty train platform trying to eat her bacon and egg roll neatly while balancing her shopping bags on her lap. It was a disappointing roll; the bacon was too undercooked and fatty, and the egg was even worse. She’d plucked up the courage to ask for the yolk to be “as runny as you can get it, please” but instead it had gone orange and congealed, and she hadn’t the nerve to ask them to redo it. The roll was also too crispy for her liking with crumbs sticking to her mouth, and worse, falling on her shopping. She felt terribly self-conscious, looking around at the other people on the platform to make sure she wasn’t being observed. Mrs McLean would usually have waited until she had gotten home to have such messy food,...
Mrs McLean was perched on a bench at the mostly empty train platform trying to eat her bacon and egg roll neatly while balancing her shopping bags on her lap. It was a disappointing roll; the bacon was too undercooked and fatty, and the egg was even worse. She’d plucked up the courage to ask for the yolk to be “as runny as you can get it, please” but instead it had gone orange and congealed, and she hadn’t the nerve to ask them to redo it. The roll was also too crispy for her liking with crumbs sticking to her mouth, and worse, falling on her shopping. She felt terribly self-conscious, looking around at the other people on the platform to make sure she wasn’t being observed. Mrs McLean would usually have waited until she had gotten home to have such messy food,...
