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The Long Walk
Photo by Jim O'Connell on flickr Hello lovely internet people. It seems like I am now the official Malice editor, due to having too much time on my hands and an eye for being picky as regards layout. ;-) Today's offering from Cigs is possibly the start of something longer. Have a read and tell him what you think in the comments. Without comments, this blog is nothing. Well, not quite nothing, but it's much more fun when it's interactive, and, as the saying goes, you get out what you put in. Katja x Fucking tubes. Always the same. Always delayed. This time? A power surge. Central and Piccadilly lines part suspended, commuters already backing up on the platform, the usual mutterings, pushings and shovings. I turned back to the stairs and began to trudge my way up – 'this staircase has 140 steps'. The escalators had stopped and the lifts stood silent. As I emerged into the sunlight I saw them, police swarming at the tube station entrance like bees around a harried hive. Something big had happened. Something really big. Sirens were catcalling in the distance and an alarm somewhere far off grizzled like a collicky child. I just started walking. Some people were doing the same but others were stood watching, lingering on the pavement, asking each other questions that they couldn't answer or looking to police officers for details that weren't being released. I tapped at my phone and called Ellen. It rang but she didn't answer. Perhaps the lines were down, the network overstretched. All the way along I heard rumours – bombs, the IRA, Al Qaeda, electrical failures, some kind of collision, a suicide. Out in the mass of humanity, liars jumped at the chance to exaggerate – a sniper at Downing Street just shot a bomber about to blow it up, a plane has just crashed at Heathrow. On Tottenham Court Road, I stopped at an electrical goods store to join a crowd of people watching at the window. The shop was closed but the TV sets in the window still mutely relayed the atrocity in glorious Technicolor. |
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doctortripswitch / Website (29.5.07 11:35) Was it a man under a train? I bet it was a man under a train. Those pesky men under trains. |
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Katja / Website (29.5.07 12:17) Yeah, always causing trouble, they are. On a (sort of) related note, I sniggered mightily at the announcement over the tannoy at Piccadilly Circus just before 9am this morning: 'A normal London Underground service is running on all lines.' The emphasis is not mine. |
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pog (29.5.07 13:17) That's exactly what I did on the morning of 7/7 - so this one doesn't read like fiction to me. |
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