Compartments

Original title: Vagon. Publishers in English: Polaris (2004), PS Publishing (English, UK, forthcoming, as part of the mega-collection Impossible Stories II). Also published in Postscripts 2 (2004).

On a strange train journey, in a series of six compartments, a traveller experiences unpredictable encounters, culminating in a meeting of epiphanic power. Through a narrative of dreamlike sharpness Compartments taps into the fears and absurdities, the beauties and mysteries of the unconscious mind, to achieve a consummation both moving and full of hope.