The Road North and Other Stories

<p>The stories in <em>The Road North and Other Stories</em> come from a place where distance and memory meet.<br>They are about men and women who have lost something - a war a love a piece of themselves - and keep moving anyway.</p><p>There are no heroes here. Only people who did what they could with what they had.<br>The road is long the bottle half-empty and the sea always just beyond sight.</p><p>These are stories of small courage and quiet defeat.<br>They were written to be read slowly - one at a time perhaps at dusk when the day is mostly gone and the world is still.</p><p> Each story stands alone but together they tell of the same journey - the road north.<br>It's the direction we take when we've lost the trail south when the dust settles and we must choose what's left to carry.</p><p>There are fields bars rivers and borders.<br>There is the old mule the empty table the hill where nothing grew.<br>And in every silence there's a truth that cannot be spoken aloud.</p><p>Read them as you would watch the sea: not for what happens but for what stirs beneath.</p><p> </p>