A Man Discovers a Three-Year-Old Train Ticket on a Peterborough-to-London Journey
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Daisy Hildyard
Summary
A man named Bruce rushes to catch a train from Peterborough to London. After settling in, he discovers an unused train ticket from 2006 (over three years old) inside an envelope addressed to the Peterborough City Council Housing Department. The narrative hints at a complex relationship between Bruce and a woman named Katharine, suggesting an underlying personal story beyond the mundane train journey.
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Twitter / XA Man Discovers a Three-Year-Old Train Ticket on a Peterborough-to-London Journeytheparisreview.orgKey quotes
· 4 pulledBruce had to run from the office to make his train.
Inside it was a Peterborough-to-London train ticket, unused, but dated to 2006: it was more than three years old.
Bruce cast a furtive look around the vacant carriage.
Place a man and a woman in a train carriage together and the mind doggedly closes in—but between him and Katharine there had been something else.
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