About the Station

Penumbra Station is a place that isn't quite on any map.

It is an underground terminus on a line no one remembers commissioning — a half-lit platform, a ticket hall warm with gas and damp, and a timetable whose hours occasionally disagree with those above. Trains arrive from where they shouldn't. Passengers turn up carrying the wrong luggage. Most leave again; some do not.

These are short stories about the station and the people who pass through it. They can be read in any order. Some touch the world above; some stay beneath.

About the writer

The stories are written by James Daw, a pen name. You can reach the station's correspondence office at [email protected].