Athul Sreekumar
Books & writings

Window seat

Two strangers, one overnight train, and a conversation neither of them will repeat.

She had the window seat and he had the ticket that said he should. Neither of them mentioned it. By Ernakulam they were sharing oranges; by Coimbatore he had told her about his father, which he had not told anyone.

In the morning the train arrived and the platform took them both, and that was the whole of it. Some people are chapters. Some are just a single page you keep folded in your pocket.