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    Amy Holwerda

    Amy Holwerda is a freelance writer living the dream of traveling the world with a pencil behind her ear. Her work has been noted in The Best American Essays (2013) and has been published in Hobart, The Collagist, Quick Fiction, Flash International, and The Sycamore Review, among others. She currently lives in Berlin, Germany and blogs about her travels at amyholwerda.com.

    Amy Holwerda

    Nonfiction

    On the Tokyo Trains

    Amy Holwerda·
    On the Tokyo trains we stand close as lovers, while men in white gloves push us closer together. On top of each other, elbows fill empty spaces and faces leave streaks on the windows. We move as one body, sway hard, back again.