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    Catori Sarmiento

    Catori Sarmiento is an author who has contributed fiction to Nothing. No One. Nowhere. by Virgogrey Press, The Citron Review, Brick Rhetoric, Foliate Oak Magazine, and Crossed Out Magazine. She has also contributed non-fiction to Her Kind and This Boundless World and several academic essays published by Student Pulse. Ms. Sarmiento also has had poetry in numerous publications including serving as a featured author in The Fukushima Poetry Anthology. Professionally, she is an English and Writing Professor in Tokyo, Japan. Her author website is catorisarmiento.com.

    Catori Sarmiento

    Nonfiction

    The Rail to Sacile

    Catori Sarmiento·
    As the clacking train slows to a stop, the grating door of the fourth car opens to reveal the tightly packed innards where people of all colors sit in coveted seats or else stand in the thin passage so those disembarking are forced to brusquely push through. At the sound of the steel door, the woman flicks open her eyes, fluttering her lids, then darting her irises this way and that before settling them on me.