Runnaway Train (1993, 2022)

Runnaway Train (1993, 2022)

Horror is real and Runnaway train shows that – without leaving it to the imagination.

“Good morning, Golden Morning” – With a breezy jolly pace, radio DJ Marisa greets her listeners and then pronounces the name of the song she just played for ‘just woken up’ Holland. “Runnaway train by Soul Asylum; that was a big hit in 1993” and then we move on to the next track for us radiolisteners. With a knot in my stomach and tears behind my eye sockets, I sit in the car, not yet ready for the upbeat note that has now begun. My mind, thinking in pictures, colors, smells and empathy, still lingers on the runaway train.

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Cunt monday: facing the hardest decision

Cunt monday: facing the hardest decision

The day starts badly because I knew exactly why I had gotten up. Not just any shitty Monday. Not even “Manic Monday” by The Bangles, where you’re walking under ladders, dodging falling paint cans, and nearly tripping over a black cat: meow. No, on this day, my bad luck wasn’t random—it was planned. Monday, November 1st, 1999: the day that would change my life forever—though I didn’t know how at the time.

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