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.



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?

"In this long novella, the details are presented meticulously, building characters and atmosphere layer on layer."--Locus

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About the AuthorPASI ILMARI JÄÄSKELÄINEN is well known in his native Finland for his fantasy and sci-fi narratives and has twice won the Kuvastaja Fantasy Prize given by Finland's Tolkien Society and four times won the Atorax Award for Fantasy. He teaches Finnish language and literature, is author of The Rabbit Back Literature Society,and is the father of three sons.
Title: Where the Trains Turn : A Tor.Com Original
Author(s): Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen
ISBN: 9781466883864
Copyright 2014
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Publisher: Tor Publishing Group
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Language: English
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