Way Stations (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Harriet Huntington
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Plot: Realism
- Time of Work: March of 1963 or 1964
- Setting: Concepción and Ibarra, Mexico
- Principal Characters: Sara Everton, Richard Everton, Kate, Steve, Inocencia, Lourdes, The cura
- Genres: Realism, Short fiction
- Subjects: 1960’s, Divorce, Mines, miners, or mining, Mexico or Mexicans, Latin America or Latin Americans, Priests
- Locales: Ibarra, Mexico, Concepción, Mexico
The Story
A train from the United States border arrives two hours late in Concepción, Mexico. Sara and Richard Everton are at the station expecting the arrival of their friends from the United States, Kate and Steve. They worry that something is awry when neither friend emerges from the sleeping car. After a search, Kate is spied at the top of the train's rear platform, seemingly unwilling to disembark. Kate announces that she has come alone. Without prying, the Evertons load her luggage into their car, and they travel the road to Ibarra.
During the ride it becomes...
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