Faraway Wanderers Novels & Stories

"What a clown. Parading around about winning me back, only to go running when another woman waved a pregnancy test." For him, admitting the truth would ruin his reputation. That was more than anything he could ever tolerate. Shelley listened to my rant, then grinned. "Finally. You’ve grown up. No more lovesick fool. We can be friends again." I flushed, embarrassed. To prove I meant it, I acted fast. Before Ethan could reshuffle the company, I sold my half of the shares at a low price. Then, I bought a ticket and left, traveling across the country, enjoying every corner of its beauty.

The drifting jacket looked exactly like a final farewell from someone who had fallen into the sea. “Goodbye,” I whispered to the foolish version of myself who once loved them so deeply. Leaving the bridge behind, I got into a taxi. “To the airport.” From now on, I will keep all my love for myself.

Jenny rushed into the room, her eyes red with anger as she yelled, "I heard everything. Mom, Jackson, was that all true? What exactly is going on?" Knowing there was no point in hiding anymore, Rowena sighed. "Since you've already heard, I won't keep it from you anymore, Jenny. "I didn't approve of your relationship with Ian back then. But you threatened to hurt yourself if I didn't let you marry him, so I had no choice but to agree. But right before the wedding, his family called me and said that he had run off." She continued, "Not long after, I found him overseas with a wealthy woman. I offered him money and shares, but he said it still wasn't as much as what that woman could give him. No

Four years ago Noah Heidi and I used to run every morning before I left for college but now, she’s in bad shape. That’s mostly due to the fact that she probably stopped running the moment I wasn’t around to push her again. She’s the last of all my siblings and also the sweetest. Heidi couldn’t hurt a fly but that doesn’t mean people won’t want to hurt her. Sadly, they’d most likely take her sweetness for naïveté and try to hurt her in unimaginable ways. I have two sisters, Heidi and Gwen. Gwen is the feisty one and as much as I also take her on runs like this, she can pretty much hold her own so I focus a lot more on Heidi. I won’t let anyone hurt her

Some were dealing with or preparing for the unexpected loss of a loved one, and others were searching for their destined route on a road map previously unwritten. In the end, they all came out of it. While not unscathed–still forever and ever grateful for the lessons learned; Finding themselves, and one another. Hollis Bogard and Whitney York, along with everyone connected to them, turned out to be the ultimate proof of the famously beautiful statement “not all who wander are lost.”

They love it, buying a house away from all the New York noise and settling for a beautiful home out in the country. "Ok, I guess it's time we make our way out before we lose our plane. You guys ready? Say bye to mom and dad?" Loretta says to Aiden and Emily. They stand, Aiden is a bit reluctant to turn off his game until Jake gives him the look. He gets serious, but honestly Aiden has just as big of a temper as he does. Aiden turns off his console and walks towards us.

That isolation had raised in the New Land a folk independent and self-reliant, private and stubborn, with little need for regard to the contrivances of the powerful in some distant land, and the farther one traveled westward beyond the shadow of the mountain the more intrenched was this view. For that reason, those who ventured into the far unknown, caravan outriders, Guardsmen, or those waylaid by winter and having nowhere else to go, had cause to be so far from the more well traveled routes. So, the arrival of the Lady that early autumn morning was out of place.

"Okay. We go." Preparations were quiet and solemn. They explained to the leaders of The New Dawn and the Ship-Mind that they had to leave on another journey, that a distant echo needed their help. They didn't tell them the whole truth. They spoke of a "quiet sickness" in a far-off star system. It was not quite a lie, but it felt like one. The people were sad to see them go, but they understood. The gardeners' purpose was a wandering one. They gave them gifts for the journey—packets of food, containers of water, and small, handmade tokens of good luck.

I said feeling tears welling up at the corner of my eyes, Lucas nodded, I started walking away from him, I wanted to be alone, he can never change. I started walking, with no clue of where the hell I was going, but as long as it's far from him, I'll be fine. I didn't realize how far I walked but I walked a lot, I was facing a lake, it wasn't icy or anything, but it seemed cold.

“What’s the point of talking about this now? Whether in my past life or this one, I can never forgive you. The best outcome for us is to never see each other again.” I looked away and clung tighter to Marco’s arm. “Come on.” Marco glanced at me, then at the disheveled figure on the opposite side of the street. Not asking any questions, he gripped my hand tighter. “Alright. Let’s go home.” In the back, the shadow sank to his knees as scattered chamomile petals swirled across the ground in the wind. Still, not a single soul turned back.