Last Train Home

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 w...