Songs for the Missing
“The woods behind her house ran unbroken, crisscrossed with creeks and ATV trails before backing up to the Conrail tracks. A half mile inland the Norfolk Southern’s lines shadowed them like rivals. All day the trains barreled east- and westbound, blaring their horns before every crossing, but after dark, when the clamor of work died down and the moon hung low over the trees, they filled the deepening sky with sound, their mournful warnings growing louder as they approached, peaking in a furious ...thrumming of diesels and clatter of trucks as if they were passing right behind her mother’s fenced-off compost heap, then fading again, long-drawn chords calling ever softer, moving away through town and into the distance until there was nothing but the sawing of locusts surrounding the house.Like everyone in their subdivision, Nina knew the schedule intimately. As a girl she stayed up to hear the ten o’clock freight before giving herself to sleep, and was disappointed when she missed it. Since eighth grade she no longer considered catching the one o’clock an achievement.MoreLess
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