Tales from the Red Caboose

By Joseph Erhardt

Stash is the Red Caboose's resident raconteur. He trades tales of his railroading adventures for beer and Caboose-owner Laughing Crow's occasional dinner "specials." When a stranger arrives and takes more than an ordinary interest in Stash's stories, it becomes a question as to which of the raconteur's tales are fable, and which—if any—are true.

Tales from the Red Caboose is a linked collection of five train stories, each of which goes off the rails just enough to make the SF and mystery reader want to come along for the ride.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Joseph Erhardt
• Release date: Dec 30, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386715733

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