Tag: train

Our Strangers

I’m on the train, traveling alone, with two seats to myself. I have to use the restroom. Without...

My father worked in Ballymore and came down in the evenings on the train, in a wordless fury,...

It wouldn’t be true to say that Roger saw the funny side, or had glimpses of perspective, or...

That evening, sometime after the advertised hour, Mr. Salter alighted at Boot Magna Halt. An hour...

After an early luncheon, William went to say goodbye to his grandmother. She looked at him with...

The train shudders and pitches toward Fourteenth Street, stopping twice for breathers in the...

“Will you stop that!” Ammu said, so loudly that Murlidharan, who had hopped off the milestone to...