The Taxi Driver

Marlon Wells
3 min readFeb 4, 2021
Photo by abdurahman iseini on Unsplash

The inner thoughts of my last taxi driver in Istanbul. Probably.

I’m working through lunch again today. It’s the only way I can make ends meet these days. On the road by 7 a.m., starting with a couple of airport runs. Fill out the morning with a few neighborhood rides, and maybe some mall runs at noon. Eat a few snacks while driving and make my last trip of the day toward home. I can quit by 8 p.m., early enough to have dinner with my…

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Marlon Wells

Creative Writer publishing random blogs and essays on Medium. Subscribe to https://marlon.substack.com/ for serialized fiction and other more.