(13.47) Six million people live in Toronto. And yet, I see the same people all the time. Not in the same place, you understand. I see the woman with the giant beehive hairdo striding down Yonge Street one day, and then a week later lying in the sand on the shore of Lake Ontario, and three months go by, and then she’s on the subway heading north to the suburbs (here there be dragons).

God’s Extras. The non-player characters who drift in and out of your life. And you never talk to them, and they never talk to you, but when you’re wandering around the city and you see one of them reading a book or singing to themselves, the world feels a little less lonely.

I saw this young blonde woman curled up at the bottom of the subway stairs, shivering under a thin blanket. Her sign read: “Scottish Lass: just looking for enough to buy a hot meal”. I walked past her, then through the hallway…

Scottish Lass. By Lucinda Chell, read by Josie Henley-Einion of Casting Pods.

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