Maksim Skakun, 38

Four forty in the depot and the yard lights are the only ones awake. I walk the length of the train, tapping wheels, listening for anything that shouldn't be there. Thin gloves. Ten years of this and I still come early enough to be cold.译四点四十的车场，只有院子里的灯还醒着。我沿着列车走一遍，敲敲车轮，听有没有不该有的声响。手套很薄。干了十年，我还是早到，早到足够把自己冻着。

Elias TorresMaria Fernanda QuispeMarkus Weber

There is a stool on my balcony that has taken three winters. The joints are cut and fitted; the sanding is not. I give it twenty minutes after a shift, until my fingers stiffen. Wood has no timetable, which is either the relief or the problem.译阳台上那条小板凳，已经做了三个冬天。榫头都开好、也合过了，就是还没打磨。下班后我给它二十分钟，直到手指发僵。木头没有时刻表，这既是解脱，也是麻烦。

Farid KarimiDiego FerrerYassine BelkacemMaria Fernanda Quispe

Last train, half past midnight, and the platform holds maybe nine people. A man in a grey coat stands at the same mark every night and never looks up from his phone. I close the doors gently when I can. Nobody notices, which is the correct outcome.译末班车，十二点半，站台上大概九个人。一个灰大衣的男人每晚站在同一个地标上，从不把头从手机上抬起来。能轻的时候，我关门会轻一点。没人察觉，而这正是对的结果。

Nusrat JahanMbark Ould AhmedJoana ManuelBojan Petrovic

February. The tunnel is warm and the street is not. I keep the hood up for the eight minutes between the depot and home, and by my own door I am still deciding whether the winter was long or I am simply slow to thaw.译二月。隧道里是暖的，街上不是。从车场到家八分钟，我一路把帽子戴着，走到自家门口还没想清楚：是冬天太长，还是我化得太慢。

Diego FerrerDesislava PetkovaFranziska GruberKim Minjun

People ask whether the tunnel is boring. It isn't. It is a corridor where nothing is supposed to happen, and the whole job is to keep it that way. Signals, second by second. I like a day without surprises. I have enough of those in the workshop.译有人问我在隧道里闷不闷。不闷。那是一条什么都不该发生的通道，而我的活儿就是让它继续什么都不发生。信号，一秒接一秒。我喜欢没有意外的一天。意外我在工房里已经够多了。

Paloi SrisukAnush HakobyanAisha RahmaniJoana Manuel

I am making a cutting board for my sister out of oak that was too good to burn. She will say it is too heavy. It is too heavy. I keep sanding anyway, past midnight, radio low, because a thing you give away should not have a rough corner.译我在给姐姐做一块砧板，用的是好到舍不得烧掉的橡木。她一定会说太重了。确实太重。我还是接着磨，磨过半夜，收音机开得很小声，因为送出去的东西不该留着毛边。

林雪梨Anush HakobyanKim Minjun

A new driver joined in autumn. For two months we said good morning and nothing else. Last week he asked how I keep the brakes from snatching in wet weather, and we talked forty minutes about that alone. Slow, but the track holds.译秋天来了个新司机。头两个月，我们只互道早安，别的一句没有。上周他问我，雨天怎么让闸不咬死，我们就这一个话题聊了四十分钟。慢是慢，可轨道压得住。

江南雨Elias TorresBojan Petrovic