A Key for the Midnight Stairs — by Jenny Merryweather

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The 11:47 to Morrington Cross isn't coming. Clara is the last passenger left at Hartwell Station — coat too thin, phone dead, her mother in hospital somewhere she can't reach. Then she finds a note tucked in a back corridor, and a pair of stairs that seem to have been waiting for her.