The subway platform began shaking under his feet, another sign it was time, and Peyton began moving through the crowd. A crowd always gathered towards the edge of the platform a few minutes before the train arrived and there was always pushing and bouncing in that crowd. He would not be noticed any more than the woman in the gray business suit he just brushed past.
(My first published short story.)
The fortunate inherit riches, prestige, positive notoriety. Those not so lucky bear legacies filled with poverty, infamy or, worse yet, the unhinged insanity and murderous urges of their ancestors.
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