Novel Road Novels & Stories

waited. There was some slight irritation where the laser was hitting him but other than that, nothing. Suddenly, a strange feeling appeared. He felt like there was something new inside his head. The robotic voice came again and gave further instructions. "Please close your eyes and concentrate. Imagine a safe place, any place, you are standing inside it. No one else can get in here, this is your personal palace..." Somehow Sheng Chen could feel himself falling asleep. The robotic voice sounded a bit hypnotic and Sheng Chen couldn't help but follow its directions. He did as told but after several minutes nothing happened. He kept trying over and over again and finally after a full hour h

I stared through the window, wondering what she had in mind, when suddenly the ground opened up and the road fell away. We were going off-roading; there were no other cars on the street, so she was able to navigate without slowing down. The tires crunched over gravel, kicking up dust that obscured our vision completely. But it didn't stop me from remembering this road. I knew where we were headed—back to the old cemetery, nestled deep inside the woods and set far enough away that we wouldn't run into anyone else. There were some cemeteries with graves along the main path or around the back, but they were newer plots of land, places that still held names and dates carved into tombstones.

She entered the streets and headed for her house. There were not many cars on the road at this time of night. When she checked the time, it was almost midnight. Her eyes glued to the road, she made a one-way turn. This road is frequently referred to as desolate for good reason. Due to the high number of fatalities on this road, it is not frequently used. She was unaware that it was also rumored to be cursed. She continued to drive, hoping to arrive home soon, when all of a sudden, she noticed red eyes in the darkness out in the distance, and her car veered off the road and hit a nearby rock.

A road. I saw hope and continued. The road was at the lower elevation of the land and I had to go down. I suddenly saw a light and when I turned to my right, I saw a car moving so fast. That's my hope! I held onto the nearest trea to support myself as I went down but Dan fired again and I lost my focus. I rolled on the dirt and rolled straight to the road. I feel like I saw Heaven when the light from the coming car blinded me after I rolled in the middle of the road.

Chapter 26: Ryan The road from the motel to Johannesburg is a long, shimmering ribbon of asphalt, but to me, it felt like the narrowest tightrope in the world. I keep my hands at ten and two on the steering wheel, my grip so tight my knuckles are the color of bone. I’m driving like I’m transporting glass no, something more fragile than glass. I’m transporting the second chance I never deserved.

Back then, I had held our feverish daughter the same way, brow furrowed, racing through the night toward the hospital, coat forgotten. Willow shook off the jumble of thoughts in her head and quickly swapped into a long coat. She wrapped Naomi snugly before braving the cold night to hail a cab. However, the streets were empty. No car waited for them. Willow felt Naomi's temperature continue to climb in her arms. With it, her chest tightened with panic. She had no sense of how much time had passed before a kind stranger finally stopped their car. Tears pricked at the corners of her eyes.

*Rob* After years in the military, I consider myself comfortable with GPS and getting around in new places. But following the GPS directions to the Hammond farm, even coming from a place as small as the college community around St. Mary’s, I feel like I’m navigating every rat run and Bob’s Road in the county. In the stretch of about a mile, I’m certain I’ve passed the entirety of the town. The endless acres of snow-dusted fields along either side of this graveled road I’m driving are starting to make me worried I’ve missed it when suddenly a building drifts out of the gloom up ahead and to my left.

But somehow, hearing it from Leif—she did. Just then, the road ahead suddenly split in two. A perfectly good highway suddenly branched off. Raina hit the brakes sharply, and the car came to a halt by the roadside. ‘When did they build a new road here?’ What a terrible start—barely onto the national road and they run into this kind of problem. Leif, unable to see, felt the sudden stop. He turned toward Raina and asked, “What’s wrong? Did something happen?” ***

Three years after my release from prison, I ran into my ex-wife in the presidential suite of the most exclusive hotel in Bayshore. It had been years since I last saw her. She was draped in a silk robe, radiating wealth. When she recognized me, something unreadable passed through Cecily Monroe's eyes. "On the day you got out, why didn't you wait for me to come pick you up?" I said nothing and handed over the takeout. Her gaze dropped to the scar on my wrist, and her breath caught. "I went too far with that. But you've always been tougher than Adrian. You can always get back on your feet." She was talking about what happened six years ago, when Adrian Burke was involved in a catastrophic

He could clearly see the place where the wolf had come at them, he could still feel the darkness in the air. Now, the road looked plain, it looked normal, it looked like the same road he often passed by. He put a shutter to his thoughts as he drove further away. Then there's the road where they found the dead goat. Shit, his normal town had so many abnormal places for him these days. For them. The dream of woods, the dead goat in Falcon Cross, the wolf in the Gelder Road... Oh, and the school, where Rory saw the shadow guy - thing, whatever.