Catching the Liminal Train: Fantasy

[penthius]

The train up the avenue begins to fade from view as it switches over to the liminal track. She watches, gritting her teeth, and swears that she will get on the next liminal train, that she will make it to her appointment in time, that she will not cop out and catch a mundane train and arrive fifteen minutes late for a job interview that she really, really needs to ace in order to afford her apartment in a secured building. She can endure liminal for that long, she can, really. She can't afford to get kicked out of her apartment because she couldn't live in an unsecured apartment, couldn't take the risk of a cockroach climbing out of her drain and talking to her, or of her apartment suddenly beginning to breath or heave its lungs. Traumatic stress syndrome is what she writes on all the grant applications she files for extra funds, but she thinks of it as commonsense, really. Who the heck wants to live in a place where things are unreliable? She has obtained a passport, and she sometimes thinks of filing for a work visa or a student visa or some kind of papers that will get her into the steady states, but her skills aren't that great, certainly not good enough to get her waived in. So she saved her pennies and dreams of maybe someday taking an extended vacation into normality.

Inspiration: "Life in Mono" - Mono (Electric)
Story potential: High.
Notes: I really like this worldbuilding idea. Seems like a good way to work in rabbithole stories, too...though they'd be more blatant than the sneaky rabbithole in mundane world ones. And...not a bad story title.