On Track (The Old Store Lost Tales: 4)

by Peter Salisbury

Overview

Another standalone Lost Tale in the post-apocalyptic Old Store collection. After narrowly escaping the massacre suffered by Rat's biker gang, Calli seeks a route less likely to end in deadly pursuit. Still with a thirst for adventure, she joins a small party riding a train across the neglected landscape. They are not long out of the city when they realise that being stuck on a fixed track can be even more hazardous than being on the road.

Bonus story: 'Bad Water'. One of the characters from 'On Track' tells his own version of his thwarted attempt at stowing away on Calli's train, and how he then tried to redeem himself in the eyes of the other townsfolk.

There are quite a few differences between UK and US rail terms, so a glossary is provided near the end of the book.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940044471078
Publisher:	Peter Salisbury
Publication date:	04/14/2013
Series:	The Old Store , #5
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	260 KB

About the Author

I am a life-long fan of science fiction, and so when I had an idea for my first story, I wasn't surprised that it was in that genre. The first book took me ten years to complete, but I've got a little quicker since. I am pleased to say that I now have over thirty books published in my name.

What next? So far I haven't run short of ideas for new stories, so there are several projects in various stages of completion, and I hope to be publishing the next story before too long, so please subscribe to my alerts.

My profile picture is a portrait of the author as a young man, painted by my daughter Charlotte Salisbury who has also contributed to several of my book covers.

Professional background
In the 1970s I studied Chemistry at university and then spent over thirty years in classrooms across England teaching almost anything but Chemistry, including Photography, Communications Skills, General Science, Computing, and Information and Communications Technology.

In the 1990s I spent ten years writing abstracts of chemical patents. This was a most exacting process but very rewarding to be reading about the very latest inventions in the field, and the abstracts were distributed world-wide to research scientists by subscription. Articles of mine have been published in magazines and I have written assignments used for assessing Communications Skills for a major international Examination Board.

After retiring early this century I began writing in earnest.