One-way Ticket Short Stories

One-way Ticket Short Stories
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A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Written for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett.

Tom Walsh had a lot to learn about life. He liked travelling, and he was in no hurry. He liked meeting people, anyone and everyone. He liked the two American girls on the train. They were nice and very friendly. They knew a lot of places. Tom thought they were fun. Tom certainly had a lot to learn about life.

This is a collection of short stories about adventures on trains. Strange, wonderful, and frightening things can happen on trains – and all of them happen here.

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ONE-WAY TICKET

SHORT STORIES

A train is a closed world. Each carriage is like a small room, with windows and doors, but you can’t get out when the train is moving. The world outside is far away, and you can forget your home, your work, your friends. On a train you sit with strangers. You don’t know anything about them, but you sit next to them for hours, or perhaps days, in the same small room. You can’t get away from them.

As the wheels of the train turn, these stories show us three different people. A beautiful young wife – going on holiday with her new husband, through the green hills of England. A carefree young man – travelling across the mountains of Yugoslavia, looking for work. A sensible middle-aged man – travelling north through the forests and lakes of Finland, hoping for a quiet journey.

Three different journeys, three different people – all locked in the closed world of the train … where anything can happen.

To my brothers, Nick and Rod, who do a lot of travelling around Europe by train


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Illustrated by: Nick Harris
Word count (main text): 5520 words
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