All Passengers Gone, Agent Said the Train Never Left

Summary

The express train pulled out of the station. I’d just come back from the restroom, and over a thousand passengers had vanished.

I refused to believe it, frantically dialing the station’s help line. The agent on the phone insisted that due to a severe blizzard, Express Train G404 had been canceled. It never left the station.

But I was sitting right there, in the warmth of a first-class seat.

Even more terrifying, when I tried to call my mother, the number came back as disconnected.

And the world outside the window, once a snowy landscape, had dissolved into a colorless, gray void...