The Night Train

What could make a boy run away?

... from everything he knows.

From his mother. His home. And all those things he doesn't yet understand.

Every evening Jayrod sits on his back porch and listens to the train rumble through the woods beyond the field. Beyond the boundary set by his father. It sounds like freedom. Like adventure. He's too young to know the dangers that lurk aboard freight trains. In the boxcars and on the flats. The bad men. It's no place for a boy.

The man calls himself Farley. He...