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Off the Beaten Track: Stories
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 20 2025
Pages: 114
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.24 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Five people. Five moments when the familiar path simply ends.
A father follows his autistic son's unconventional navigation through storm-damaged wilderness, discovering that the greatest wisdom often comes from those society underestimates. A despised tax collector learns that true height has nothing to do with physical stature when grace appears beneath ancient branches. A dying tree bears witness to generations of human struggle, teaching final lessons about what endures when everything else falls away. A shepherd encounters divine fire that burns without consuming, transforming exile into calling. A politician confronts the real-world implications of his compassionate theories when nightmare becomes reality.
These are the Extended versions - stories that refused to stay within their original boundaries, allowed to wander into territory that can only be explored when rigid structures give way to necessary discovery.
Off the Beaten Track is for readers who understand that the most important journeys happen when we're forced to navigate without maps, when survival depends on reading signs we never learned to interpret, when the only way forward is through unmarked territory that demands authentic engagement rather than performative compliance.
From the wilderness of family relationships to the sacred ground of spiritual transformation, these stories explore what happens when people are forced off their beaten tracks and discover that being lost is sometimes just another word for finding a better way home.
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