num_pages: 84
description: I don't like to think about the past. But I cannot stop remembering my son.Emma Nightingale prefers to remain grounded in reality as much as possible. Yet she's willing to indulge her nine year-old son Rupert's fascination with trains as it brings him closer to his father Gunnar from whom she is separated. Once a month Gunnar and Rupert venture out to follow the rails and watch the trains pass. Their trips have been pleasant if uneventful until one afternoon Rupert returns in tears. The train tried to kill us he tells her.Rupert's terror strikes Emma as merely the product of an overactive imagination. After all his fears could not be based in reality could they?Published here for the first time in English Where the Trains Turn won first prize in the Finnish science-fiction magazine Portti's annual short story competition and then went on to win the Atorox Award for best Finnish science fiction or fantasy short story.
language: English
title: Where the Trains Turn
publisher: Tor Books