What if you’re trying to get home, and someone … or something … caught a ride home with you?

In their 2024 contest, Fractured Lit is after a 1,000-word flash fiction piece that “…pushes us away from the mundane and into the strange or uncanny.”

My submission, Forgotten Passenger, follows Yuki traveling on a bullet train in modern-day Tokyo. Let’s see where the ride takes us!