The Ballad of Neko and Niko

In January 2023, Georgia and her daughter Melaina witnessed the death of their cat Neko, crushed by a TGV at Montparnasse station (XIVth-XVth). Two years later, the mother responded to the new SNCF protocol aimed at avoiding this kind of tragedy.

The Ballad of Neko and Niko

M y name, the one given to me by my parents when I was born, was an accident. Initially, they were going to name me Spencer, a decision they thankfully forgot on the way to the hospital to bring me into the world. They named me ____ and gave me the middle name Stanley, after my grandfather. As they were writing it down, they realized at the last minute that my initials would spell ASS, and that felt like setting me up for failure. So they pivote…