{"id":3083,"date":"2026-06-03T15:05:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T22:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radioghost.com\/?p=3083"},"modified":"2026-06-04T12:11:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T19:11:40","slug":"the-starlight-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radioghost.com\/?p=3083","title":{"rendered":"The Starlight Express"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Embed Player\" style=\"border:none\" src=\"https:\/\/play.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/41528605\/height\/128\/theme\/modern\/size\/standard\/thumbnail\/yes\/custom-color\/494b43\/time-start\/00:00:00\/playlist-height\/200\/direction\/backward\/download\/yes\/font-color\/FFFFFF\" height=\"128\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" oallowfullscreen=\"true\" msallowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>A terminally ill woman leaves her husband, drives into the flatlands, and runs out of gas at a closed filling station called The Starlight Express \u2014 where she&#8217;s taken in among the old and the dying and learns the rituals of a burial man&#8217;s route.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The full novella read by the author in one sitting. Spare, strange, and image-driven \u2014 bread and water left on porches, graves dug and filled, a house set alight at its owner&#8217;s last wish \u2014 it&#8217;s less a story about dying than about tending the dying and being quietly folded in among them. Best heard somewhere quiet, in the dark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-f425add1-0223-4a4e-bad8-54fa30d16734\" href=\"http:\/\/radioghost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/The-Starlight-Express-for-Download.docx\">The Starlight Express Ebook (in Word format) Download<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/radioghost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/The-Starlight-Express-for-Download.docx\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-f425add1-0223-4a4e-bad8-54fa30d16734\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A terminally ill woman leaves her husband, drives into the flatlands, and runs out of gas at a closed filling station called The Starlight Express \u2014 where she&#8217;s taken in among the old and the dying and learns the rituals of a burial man&#8217;s route. The full novella read by the author in one sitting. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/radioghost.com\/?p=3083\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Starlight Express<\/span>Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioghost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioghost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioghost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioghost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioghost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3083"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/radioghost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3094,"href":"https:\/\/radioghost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3083\/revisions\/3094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioghost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioghost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioghost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}