Delayed Reaction: An unscheduled stop sets in motion a dramatic train of events...

by Liz Losty, Linda Cohen, Debbie Hunter

Step aboard the 15:08 King’s Cross to York service and settle into your seat. A hiss of brakes . . . a juddering halt . . . an unexpected announcement. We regret to inform you that we will be unable to move on for up to an hour. Irritated murmurs are heard and mobile phones become busy. All around fellow passengers are shifting restlessly in their seats. Why does the worried young man repeatedly check his watch? Why is the city gent anxiously clutching his briefcase? Why is the mousey woman wearing flip-flops on this chilly spring day? How will this hour affect their lives? Join some of the passengers on the 15:08 as they face the trials of a delayed train journey, a journey which will impact all their lives. Delayed Reaction is the second book of short stories by the award-winning Amersham-based writing group Just Write. Their first book, Spilling the Beans, won Writing Magazine’s Writers’ Circle Anthology Award 2014. Praise for Spilling the “I love the way the stories are all so individual yet cleverly come together just as you’ve finished your third large latte.” Dinah Latham, author of Walking Forward, Looking Back

172 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 6, 2015