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The Deluge - Will Savage

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You can feel it in subway stations too.

You can feel it in subway stations too. Pack yourself shoulder-to-shoulder on a sweatsoaked platform bored deep into the Earth and match your breath to the hydraulic pulse of the coming and the going. When that pulse stops, suddenly and unknowably, a hush will fall over the masses. The system to which you have entrusted yourself, to which you have willingly surrendered all agency and control in exchange for the promise of getting there, has failed. Now what? By midnight I was supposed to be halfway to Los Angeles, but instead I sat motionless at the top of the runway while Manhattan…

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