Sunday Frames: Station To Nowhere


You enter the station in Off-Peak from a city, but beyond it lies something unknown — a sunset mountain wilderness. You can see it from the train platforms, the departing tracks suspended into a straight, seemingly infinite distance.

The best view — the one presented here — is from the windows of the station’s craft beer/games bar. Stand perfectly centered, with your incorporeal avatar nose to the windowpane, and you get an unobstructed view of the strange vista.

It’s out of this world, the station sitting at the limit between a city and an indefinite spirit world. The station is an island in terms of game space, the reddish glow of the land is the ocean beyond it. Out of space, out of time.

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Sunday Frames is a series of short pieces where the author muses on one or a small number of stills, frames, pictures, screenshots, or illustrations.

Odile Strik

About Odile Strik

Odile A. O. Strik is editor-in-chief of The Ontological Geek. She is also a linguist from the Netherlands. She occasionally writes in other places, such as her own blog Sub Specie. You can read her innermost secrets on Twitter @oaostrik.