Happy to have you join in the Finish the Story contest with your terrific story and congratulations to you for a well deserved Curie vote!

Deftly you took the prompt to a place many did not. Instead of a tale dripping with horror you gave us a beautiful story of Joelle's transition from her life. The details mount with the suffocating blackness, the reek of death, and the knowledge of her cancer taking its toll to tip a reader off that this would be her final ride on the train. Instead of having to make her final journey alone, we see that her past kindness is repaid with one needed desperately. When this gift of a guide to ease her fear is revealed you had me smiling. A truly wonderful story, Pokerm!

~Bris