Riding trains has always been one of my favorite ways to travel the world and discover it. So it should come as no surprise that when I saw the title Train Spirits, right away it became a must-read. I quickly clicked the link and bought it and although the author tells us to ‘read it before our next ride’, I decided to digest it on my couch at home.
However, nothing would have prepared me for the train ride I was about to take. Most of us are used to finding spirits or ghosts that just scare the shirts off us and haunt the devil away. The beings on these trains are completely new and their relationship is novel. Take for instance the Romantic Train Ride where a naive church member is fooled by a pastor. She believed that she was one of the virgins awaiting the Lord’s return. Instead of being a demon, the train spirit takes her on a magical pursuit of true love, and romantic justice.
Jean Seale’s Train Spirits Is A Short Story Collectional Gem
One of the features of the short story collection is the unpredictability of each spirit. Every train is owned by a unique phantom ranging from banshees unable to leave the confines of their locomotive to a soul trader on a wild, wild west stagecoach. Readers are drawn into the suspense, despair, terror, joy, and even vengeance.
Another element that can’t be overlooked is Jean Seale’s disregard for prejudice. Throughout all of the Train Spirits stories, the writer makes subtle themes against the unbalanced scale of liberty. This is most notable in the main character of each tale. I mean, the same spirit who rushes to take revenge for a helpless worker is the same angel who helps her cross the river of death. Each toll is paid to those who earn them and a medal for a runner.
A perfect example of this is seen in Train to Liliput where a social worker is mistaken by an angel of death as a human trafficker of children. The strength of the lady is seen in her refusal to surrender to the spirit. A battle unleashes when she attacks the being forcing him to transform into the angel of death. Reeling from his error, the spirit sought to prolong the life of his victim. Do angels make mistakes?
In addition, the Train Sprits short story collection also elicits some of the best emotions hidden within us. Readers will find themselves laughing, on the verge of tears, impatient, revengeful, – as each story shapes its role within us. Seale has done a great job at thrills, suspense, and storytelling.
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