The Midnight Train

Chapter 30

The Blink of an Eye

Out of the window he saw himself as a seventeen-year-old, in a sunlit Oxford, walking through the pristine green oasis of the garden quad of Balliol College. The day of his entrance exam.

With the blink of an eye he was gone, and the Ghost looked out and saw himself and Charlie at the Milk Bar talking to Wilbur’s about-to-be girlfriend, Alice Dobson.

And then the landscape became more desolate. A desert, in fact, before descending into dark.