the curious case of the dog in the nighttime was really fun to read, it's written from the perspective of a teenager with some sort of autism

an excerpt

Then I wondered whether I should have got off the train because it had just stopped at London, and I was
scared because if the train went anywhere else it would be somewhere where I didn't know anybody.
And then somebody went to the toilet and then they came out again, but they didn't see me. And I could
smell their poo, and it was different from the smell of the poo that I smelled in the toilet when I went in
there.

And then I closed my eyes and did some more maths puzzles so I didn't think about where I was going.
And then the train stopped again, and I thought about getting off the shelf and going to get my bag and
get off the train. But I didn't want to be found by the policeman and be taken to Father, so I stayed on the
shelf and didn't move, and no one saw me this time.

And then I remembered that there was a map on the wall of one of the classrooms at school, and it was a
map of England and Scotland and Wales and it showed you where all the towns were and I pictured it in
my head with Swindon and London on it, and it was like this in my head

And I had been looking at my watch since the train had started at 12:59 p.m. And the first stop had been
at 1:16 p.m., which was 17 minutes later. And it was now 1:39 p.m., which was 23 minutes after the stop,
which meant that we would be at the sea if the train didn't go in a big curve. But I didn't know if it went in
a big curve.

And then there were another 4 stops and 4 people came and took bags away from the shelves and 2
people put bags on the shelves, but no one moved the big suitcase that was in front of me and only one
person saw me and they said, "You are fucking weird, mate," and that was a man in a suit. And 6 people
went to the toilet but they didn't do poos that I could smell, which was good.

And then the train stopped and a lady with a yellow waterproof coat came and took the big suitcase away
and she said, "Have you touched this?"

And I said, "Yes."

And then she went away.

And then a man stood next to the shelf and said, "Come and look at this, Barry. They've got, like, a train
elf."

And another man came and stood next to him and said, "Well, we have both been drinking."