Last Train Home (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798895433966)

A collection of stories from the margins of American life

Wayne Creed's debut collection pulls no punches. These are stories about people surviving on the edges-Eastern Shore watermen whose lives have collapsed, the junkies and car thieves marking time, and the wheelchair-bound and forgotten trying to carve out meaning in a world that's moved on without them.

Written with unflinching honesty and surprising lyricism, Last Train Home maps the forgotten corners of life where loneliness mingles with grace, violence brushes against tenderness, and the desperate search for connection plays out in dive bars, detention centers, and abandoned churches. Creed's characters-ex-nuns and altar boys, teachers and drifters, boxers and bell ringers-navigate worlds where the American Dream has curdled into something darker, yet somehow, improbably, moments of beauty still break through.

Raw, lyrical, and uncompromising, Last Train Home announces a bold new voice in American fiction-one unafraid to look directly at what we'd rather turn away from. From fishing villages to the streets of Moscow, Creed finds in the darkest corners the beauty and persistence of the human spirit. Last Train Home offers no easy answers-only the hard truth that grace sometimes arrives on the last train, just before the station closes for good.