K. Marvin Bruce

I’m pleased to announce my latest piece has appeared in Corvus Review 6; you can read it here: http://nebula.wsimg.com/47de969e212ebf15837556bcc515fc67?AccessKeyId=3C22B84D674D5BA7A77D&disposition=0&alloworigin=1 As usual when I have a story published, I give a few hints as to what was going through my mind here.  “Last Train from New York,” in addition to being one of my most rejected stories, is also one of my favorites.  It’s personal. While I’ve never been on a haunted train, knowingly, the story came to me through a confluence of unfortunate events.  I lost a job quite unexpectedly—my first job in New York City.  The story is primarily about how it feels to lose a job.  This particular trauma was my third professional job lost because of circumstances. Yep, that’s blood. The story also has roots in reality.  Once, on a New Jersey Transit train, my family jumped on board the first car.  We were on our way to the airport an...