Extract from The Past can Wait

To tempt your appetites!

THERE’S TOO MUCH TIME TO think on a train, and then a bus. Normally, Arthur takes the night train to Melbourne, tries to sleep. He won’t sleep this time, hasn’t slept since the party, which is why he’s travelling by day, hoping the views will distract him.
Through the train window’s grimy glass, a herd of kangaroos bound across the cracked, brown earth. Something must have spooked them because it’s too hot even for ’roos to move fast. Arthur squints, searching for sign...