In Transit: Stories About Departures, Arrivals and Life in Between

By Rahul Vijh

There is a particular kind of loneliness that belongs only to airports. Not the loneliness of an empty room or a quiet Sunday, but something more alive, more restless - the loneliness of a person surrounded by thousands of other people, each of them mid-sentence in the story of their own life.

The pieces collected here are decidedly not light reading. One imagines the ordinary human noise aboard a flight that would not reach its destination. Another follows a man to a river, carrying his father's bones and ashes in a bag, trying to understand what it means to complete a life on someone else's behalf. Loss moves through these pages the way weather moves through a mountain range: it shapes everything, even when you cannot see it directly.

These are stories about what we carry. And, sometimes, about the lightness of putting it down.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GY57FCTT
• ISBN13: 9798258426123
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"