Midnight Special — V.J. Banis / Victor J. Banis

Hot Springs, Arkansas, 1949 - the Las Vegas of its day. A prison legend says that when a man sees the headlight of the ghost train, The Midnight Special, it means he's going free--but what freedom can there be for a black man on the run, in 1949 Arkansas?

This short story appears in the print anthology TOO MUCH BOOGIE.