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The Ferryman Who Never Crossed
Paperback
Series: The Roads Not Taken
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 9 2026
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.28 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
He spent his life carrying everyone else to where they were going. Then one day, someone asked him a question he could not answer.
Where are you going?
For as long as he can remember, the ferryman has rowed people across the same quiet river.
A bride going toward a new life.
A grieving mother carrying an empty blanket.
A runaway hoping to leave his past behind.
A merchant who has spent his life chasing more.
A dying woman who has finally learned what matters.
Each passenger knows where they are going.
The ferryman never asks the same question of himself.
Day after day, year after year, he carries others to the far bank, watches them step onto new ground, and turns his boat around before his own feet can touch it.
Until a child looks at him and simply asks:
Where are you going?
The question follows him home.
For the first time, the ferryman begins to wonder whether a life can be full of movement and still go nowhere. Whether duty can become a hiding place. Whether helping everyone else reach their destination can become a way of avoiding your own.
And whether the far bank he has feared all his life is really as far away as he imagined.
The Ferryman Who Never Crossed is a quiet, deeply moving philosophical novel about fear, habit, purpose, regret, and the courage to finally choose a life of your own.
A story for anyone who has ever wondered whether they are truly living, or simply repeating the life they learned to accept.
Tender, contemplative, and filled with unforgettable encounters, this modern fable asks one simple question that may stay with you long after the final page:
Where are you going?
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