One compartment. Two bunks. A night train to Inverness.
Ellie Marsh has an interview at ten tomorrow and a sleeper cabin with a fault. The steward can offer her a seat for the night, or she can share with the man already in the lower thirty-something, bearded, a paperback on his knee, and a northern voice that asks, completely deadpan, "Top or bottom?"
She takes the top. She doesn't sleep. The train rocks, the black fields stream past, and eighteen inches below her Tom is lying very still, listening.
A story about a woman who has spent all week making everything sound like an opportunity, and one night when she says what she actually wants.
An adult short story of around 3,000 one sitting, one night, no strings. Contains explicit sexual content. For readers aged 18 and over.
Also by Evie The Wrong Room, The Villa, The Cabin, The Boutique, First Class.