A pack of boys abandons their baseball game, running toward the unexpected train, and with a start the writer recognizes himself as one of them. The characters that begin to appear Mayor Raymond, Station Master Walt are all memories from his childhood. Escardy Gap is a re creation of the writer’s hometown in the Midwest. As he continues to write, the train’s destination appears on the horizon: a small town from the 1950s Escardy Gap. On the page, a train appears far in the distance, speeding across the plains. He begins to type, describing the sound the first words he’s written in months. It reminds him of something he can’t quite place. The typewriter taunts him, and he abandons it for days until the night he hears the sound. A former bestselling author sits at the typewriter day after day, fearing his talent spent, unable to produce a sentence.
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