Summary

In “Wednesday’s Child,” Rosalie waits in the Amerstadam station for her train to Brussels. She wonders “what to do next” when her train is canceled (4). A man says the cancellation is due to an accident: a man walked onto the tracks and was killed.

Rosalie writes in her notebook and rereads some lines she wrote about motherhood. She remembers her late daughter Marcie’s birth. Marcie was born on a Wednesday and died on a Thursday (5). After her death, Rosalie and her husband Dan put flowers on the tracks where Marcie died. Rosalie always carries a notebook and writes “notes to Marcie” (6). She now wonders why people walk in front of trains, thinking of Marcie and the man who died.

Before Marcie died, Rosalie gave her Ágota Kristóf’s “The Notebook Trilogy” (7). Marcie was shocked by the...