Train Dreams

A lovely short piece. Transporting.

Grainier questioned everyone, but got no news of his wife and daughter, and he grew increasingly frantic as he witnessed the refugees’ strange happiness at having got out alive and their apparent disinterest in the fate of anyone who might have failed to.

acting on the generally acknowledged theory that one man working alone could handle a house log about the circumference of his own head

Gladys didn’t speak, but she broadcast what she was feeling: She mourned for her daughter, whom she couldn’t find.