The Man on the Train: The Rhys Davies Short Story Competition Anthology

Selected by Cynan Jones.

Edited by Elaine Canning.

With a foreword by Cynan Jones.

Twelve compelling, original stories about friendship, family, fragility and love from the winners of the 2025 Rhys Davies Short Story Award.

An unnamed man travels towards Aberystwyth after twenty years, wrestling with his own internal thought processes punctuated by childhood memories; a young woman adopts a fern baby while another befriends a giant African land snail; a group of men and one woman gather at Frid...