Susan is asleep. So begins this first novella by Gilbert Girion. SOUND OF A TRAIN follows Susan Walker, a woman on a reluctant journey toward what she senses is an impending loss, painfully aware of the isolation she sometimes feels in the midst of friends and family. In this haunting and often humorous story about the unspoken bonds between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, even animals and humans, Susan begins to comprehend the invisible yet powerful ways in which we connect and...

In this novella by Gil Girion, a married couple living in Los Angeles is suddenly faced with a confusion within their relationship when the wife slips away in the middle of the night without an explanation, taking the dog with her. Her husband is confronted with questions as to where she is going and why she left. Meanwhile, she is faced with an experience for which she was not well prepared. Her meetings with various people as she drianves east create tension in the narrative as the reade...