Night Train

Night Train is for the hour when you can't sleep and your thumb reaches for a feed. Instead, take the window seat on a sleeper train. Rain runs down the glass. Forests, a coastline, small lit towns and named stations pass by. Telegraph wires rise and fall. The train runs on its own. There is no feed, no score, nothing to finish. While you're awake you can wipe the fog off the window, hold a finger still and a lantern follows it, draw the curtain, slide the pane down to let the rain in, flick up to skip to the next stop, or tap the tea for a few slow 4-7-8 breaths. A firefly will land on the glass if you tap it. Or do nothing. The route is infinite and never repeats: every kilometre is generated, every night is different. Then everything slows down with you. The screen dims and warms, the train eases off, the sound keeps rolling for a while after your phone locks. In the morning there is…