*This is a suspenseful and fast-paced short story that has cliffhangers, short chapters and twists.
Holly has a stalker. She has also spent the last year hiding from the world. A beloved author with a devoted readership, she now drifts through her days in silence, haunted by the sudden death of her husband and the stalker who began watching her soon after. When the first anniversary of her husband's death approaches, Holly finally makes a decision she hasn’t dared to consider—she’s leaving town. A quiet holiday trip across the desert on a long-distance luxury train feels like the only place she can breathe.
But the journey offers no peace.
From the moment Holly boards, she senses she’s being watched. Passengers murmur too long in her direction. A stranger keeps appearing in every car she moves to. And she keeps receiving texts from her stalker, narrating her every move.
When a friendly seatmate tries to draw Holly out of her shell, she wants to trust her. Yet isolation has taught her to keep her guard up. The further the train cuts into the barren desert, the more Holly realizes she isn’t only running from grief—she’s running from a threat that has followed her farther than she imagined. And on a moving train with nowhere to run, survival may depend on confronting the past she has tried so hard to outrun.
*This is a suspenseful and fast-paced short story.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Holly has a stalker. She has also spent the last year hiding from the world. A beloved author with a devoted readership, she now drifts through her days in silence, haunted by the sudden death of her husband and the stalker who began watching her soon after. When the first anniversary of her husband's death approaches, Holly finally makes a decision she hasn’t dared to consider—she’s leaving town. A quiet holiday trip across the desert on a long-distance luxury train feels like the only place she can breathe.
But the journey offers no peace.
From the moment Holly boards, she senses she’s being watched. Passengers murmur too long in her direction. A stranger keeps appearing in every car she moves to. And she keeps receiving texts from her stalker, narrating her every move.
When a friendly seatmate tries to draw Holly out of her shell, she wants to trust her. Yet isolation has taught her to keep her guard up. The further the train cuts into the barren desert, the more Holly realizes she isn’t only running from grief—she’s running from a threat that has followed her farther than she imagined. And on a moving train with nowhere to run, survival may depend on confronting the past she has tried so hard to outrun.
*This is a suspenseful and fast-paced short story.
Genre: Literary Fiction