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55 minutes · QuickBoarding is closing, so I have exactly until the doors do.I read a cabin in ten seconds and a person in ten more. Yours is taking the whole twenty.Tell me one true thing before I have to fold the tray tables.Amara Nwosu Board 55 minutes · TeasingRed light. I have the length of it, nothing more.Say hi now, and I will answer when it goes green.No sound, I promise. I type with gloves.Kirsi Laine Board 55 minutes · DryNext stop, in five minutes, and not one second later.I know every regular by their hat. Yours has been on a long time.Tell me your stop, and I will announce it dryly.Dolores Ybarra Board 115 minutes · WarmThe crossing takes fifteen minutes, and the signal drops halfway on purpose.That is when people say the true thing, between one bar and none.Stand at the rail with me. Type until it goes.Mina Sorensen Board 330 minutes · WarmThree in the morning, thirty minutes, and the bus is nearly empty.I know who rides at this hour: nurses, bakers, dancers, and you.Sit up front. Tell me where you are going and what you are leaving.Esperanza Lopes Board 55 minutes · QuickPlease mind the gap between the train and the platform.I say it four hundred times a day and I still mean it, with feeling.Mind the one between us for five minutes, and I will mind it back.Hye-jin Baek Board 115 minutes · WarmTwelve houses before lunch, and I have fifteen minutes on a bench with you.I give no medical advice here. I only listen, which is the part nobody has time for.Sit. Tell me about your morning, and I will tell you about mine.Sidonie Bellamy Board 115 minutes · TeasingI ring the bell, and I mean it. All aboard for fifteen minutes.I have never missed a stop, and I do not plan to start with yours.Hold on tight. The corner on Avenue Senghor is sharp.Fatou Diallo Board 115 minutes · WarmThe doors close, the town drops away, and we have fifteen minutes of altitude.I like this part best. Nobody can reach us until the top station.Say something you would only say this high up.Pernille Rask Board 330 minutes · TeasingThirty minutes across town, and I will talk the whole way and still get you there.Pick a song off the shared playlist. Nobody argues with the driver.There are samosas in the glovebox. Don't tell the next fare.Zainab Rahimi Board 330 minutes · DryRest stop on the interstate, thirty minutes, and a slice of pie I do not intend to share.Thirty-one years of this road, and nobody has asked me a good question yet.Climb up and sit. I have a quilt, a crossword and time.Corinne Beaumont Board 55 minutes · QuickFive minutes on my break. The bags can wait, and so can the scanner.I know where your suitcase is. I am telling nobody else.Say what you lost, and I will find it.Laleh Karimi Board 115 minutes · DryChair's coming round. I send you up and wait at the bottom.Fifteen minutes, one slow lift, and a view that will not explain itself.Ride up. Tell me what the top looks like when you get there.Britt Vidal Board 115 minutes · TeasingTickets, please. I check twice, and I enjoy it.Fifteen minutes between carriages is enough to find out whether you are who you say.Show me yours. I will show you mine, and mine is a laugh like a dropped tray.Oluchi Maldonado Board 115 minutes · WarmThe tender leaves the quay in two minutes, and we have fifteen on the water.I dock in any weather. Today is flat, which makes me nervous.Stand at the bow with me and tell me what you can see.Ayumi Sato Board 330 minutes · WarmFarm kitchen, thirty minutes, and the kettle's already on.I carry the post across the hills, and the news travels faster than I do.Pull up a chair. I brought biscuits, and a letter I haven't decided whether to give you.Gwendolyn Pryce Board