In-between stations I was thinking, 'I don't even really know where I am'." "A train journey is a peculiar experience: in the car, there's lots of directions for you in the form of physical signage, but on the train you're travelling over land on which there are no other pathways. "I wasn't getting a lot of writing time, so I started doing a bit of note-taking on the train and trying to make the most of that journey time – literally looking out the window and writing down what I could see." "I was travelling up and down to Queen's most of the time, from Portstewart, getting the train from Coleraine to Botanic," continues McGill of her daily commute during a two-year writing fellowship at Queen's University with the Royal Literary Fund. "I SPENT a lot of time on the train – or I used to," explains author Bernie McGill of the inspiration behind the titular tale in her new short story collection, This Train is For, which involves locomotion, place names, foolish pride and family estrangement.
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