Painting Trains: Three Adventures Into the Unknown

By Steve Godsoe

Book Overview

Painting Trains is a collection of three short stories which each capture both the romanticism of the steel rail and the carefree nostalgia of childhood. "Gus" follows a young narrator and his older cousin as a venture from their campsite finds them lost in the unforgiving bush. When they stumble upon an abandoned train, unbeknownst to them, a harrowing discovery awaits within its rotting interior. "Steampunk" captures a young narrator's dream as a sprawling trackside vineyard morphs into a fantasy landscape where coal grows on grapevines and workers labour the fields to feed a massive, at-the-ready locomotive. Both joy and turmoil soon arise during this exhilarating coming-of-age adventure. "Hobo Shoestring" follows a narrator through an adrenaline-fuelled ramble aboard a helter-skelter train that introduces everything from '60s rock culture to the notorious outlaws of the Wild West.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1039158277
• ISBN13: 9781039158276
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: FriesenPress
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"