The Next Stop is Dead by Jan Selbourne

WICKED WEDNESDAY

Please welcome Jan Selbourne for an exciting glimpse into her story. Is it real? You judge...and enjoy!

Alison McLeod had no idea that getting into the train on a dreary Saturday afternoon would change her life and almost kill her. Seated at the end of the otherwise empty carriage are three men and at the next stop another man enters the carriage.  A few minutes later this man sits beside her and opens his newspaper. It takes Alison several seconds to absorb what he’s written on the inside page. ‘Don’t look up. Get out at the next stop. The man in the middle is dead.’   

Trapped in a carriage with four men, on a train going express through the next four stations. Alison is terrified, but she has no choice but trust this man until she can get out at the next stop.

Doug Stanford hastily introduces himself as they run to a phone to call the police. When the train is stopped and searched there’s no sign of the three men, nor has anyone else seen them. Worse, Alison and Doug are charged with wasting police time and disrupting public transport.

It’s an old newspaper photo and a visit from a security organization that convince Alison and Doug something is very wrong.  However, nothing prepares them for their capture at gunpoint and the discovery the three men on the Melbourne train go back to Europe’s dark days of Nazi occupation - and the man known as evil in uniform. 

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Author’s note –

I grew up in Melbourne Australia. Years ago, my friend’s cousin was on an almost empty Melbourne train when another passenger wrote on his newspaper to get out at the next stop. A man seated between two others at the other end of the carriage was dead. When the police stopped and searched the train, the three men had vanished. It never made the news, nor did I hear anymore.  Was there a body or was it hushed up? It’s a story that begs an ending.