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Forked Horizons The Strider Journals
Paperback
Publisher Price: $22.99
ISBN13: 9781067138721
Publisher: Frederick Barnes
Published: Apr 30 2026
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.24 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Forked Horizons The Strider Journals is a choice-driven novel about the lives we build, the ones we abandon, and the quiet weight of the paths we carry forward.
Told through the journal of Strider, a young man navigating work yards, foundries, back roads, broken machinery, distant cities, and unfinished love, the story splits into two possible futures. One path leads him deeper into hard labour, injury, and the long road home. The other draws him across the Tasman into unstable work, borrowed vehicles, and the slow arithmetic of survival. Both are honest. Neither is clean.
As Strider moves between land and industry, solitude and connection, ambition and endurance, the book asks what progress actually looks like when there is no straight line forward. Love does not always fail loudly. Loss does not always announce itself. Sometimes the greatest turning points arrive disguised as ordinary days.
This is a story about becoming rather than winning. About choosing what you can carry. About standing at the edge of two horizons and learning that neither is wrong, only different.
Read Path A. Read Path B. Or walk both.
The road will not promise answers.
It will promise movement.
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