Reviewed by Sonia

�Son of the train� tells the story of teenage passage, of the boy becoming a man, experiencing life, and internalizing the messages of the experience.

I think the story needs some editing, there are several poor word choices, incorrect uses of pronouns, and I found the changes in tense distracting.

The story is told purely as a recount of actions and events past, with the narrator moving between telling of the event, the emotion �at that point� and the way it is viewed now.

The narrator has an adult view on some things and a very adolescent view on others, a more consistent voice would have helped pull me into the telling.

The metaphor of the journey of life, and the journeys taken on a train while growing didn�t quite work, (I think this is because the narrator wanted to cram too much in, nothing gets the attention it deserves) but its a great idea.

The material in this story could easily be made into several stories, viewed separately and as a whole.