Ridley Road Novels & Stories

When she nods, I smile, knowing that everything is going to be great. The car pulls away from the compound, to the small dirt road surrounded by miles and miles of trees. This has been sort of like a secret pod where we have been isolated and rejuvenated, like a cocoon. We needed it. I needed it. and now we go into the world that we left in ashes. “Landon threads his fingers through mine and I lean into him, exhaling. Here we come Ridgewood. *** Walking through my house feels so strange. I feel so different but when I look around, there is nothing different.

A BLARE closed in fast and SLAPPED past. WHEEEEEEE-WHIZZZZZZ-CHUG-CHUG…. CLICKITY-CLACK…. CHUG-CHUG…. CLICKITY-CLACK…. A never-ending blur of blue whizzed past. “This happens every day?” Dev shouted over the thundering noise. “Every day except the weekends,” the balding man blasted back . After the last bit of the express train chugged out of view, their train began to roll when his eyes fell on the house across the empty track – a decent, single-story with a dainty vegetable garden. It had its back to the passing trains. What caught his attention was something else.