01 Aug Nothing Announced
Quiet Interface
The station had been renovated last spring. Concrete, quiet signage, hanging screens.
Mira liked the stillness. Until she missed her train.
She had checked the board: 16:48 to Glasgow, Platform 3.
She returned seven minutes early. The train was gone.
A Missing Signal
The display still said “On Time.”
Inside, behind the help desk, a smaller screen showed:
“Platform Change: Now departing from 5.”
There had been no announcement. No flashing notice. No push notification.
Just… silence.
The Unspoken
She wasn’t distracted. She wasn’t late.
She just hadn’t known that the system had stopped speaking out loud.
“Most passengers check their apps now,” said the staff member kindly.
She nodded. She didn’t feel upset. Just… uninvited.
Trace
She sat for a moment on the bench at Platform 3.
The light was beautiful. The architecture calm.
But a thought remained:
“The space told me everything — except the one thing I needed to hear.”
Lines That Don’t Speak
That evening, she wrote in her sketchbook:
“Good design speaks in more than one voice.
It tells you again — in another way — when the first time didn’t reach you.”
And beneath:
“I can read. I can hear.
But I can’t be everywhere at once.”