Piccadilly Line

Time stopped at 21:43.

They said the train jumped the tracks near Hounslow, that metal folded like a paper plane, that sparks lit up the Underground like buried stars. In the long, stunned hours that follow, a young woman who was running late finds herself left behind.

Alive by accident, one thought echoes through the silence: it should've been me.

A life saved by hesitation, others lost by chance, "Piccadilly Line," a short story in The Playlist We Carried series, explores how ordinary moments tether us both to the living and to the dead.