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Side Quest: Stories
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 16 2025
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.17 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Sometimes the detour becomes the destination.
We live in a world obsessed with main quests-the obvious paths, the expected milestones, the journeys everyone agrees matter. But what about the moments when life throws you completely off course? When you discover that the person you thought you were proves inadequate to the situation at hand?
These are side quest stories. Five Extended explorations of ordinary people discovering extraordinary courage when circumstances demand they become larger versions of themselves.
Jamie, a fourteen-year-old with autism, must navigate hostile London streets alone to save his mother-discovering that sometimes the worst person for a mission is exactly the right person.
Caspian, a detective father, finally learns to hear his son Cael's unique communication frequency during a case that needs both their minds to solve.
Frank, an ex-con magician performing community service, finds unexpected redemption in a brief encounter with a lonely child who still believes in magic.
Derek and Penelope think they're conducting surveillance on her cheating husband, but discover they're exactly the partners each other needed-even if they never would have chosen each other.
Elena and Carlos face an impossible choice when their daughter's experimental cancer treatment costs more than a lifetime of honest work could ever provide.
For readers who understand that the most important journeys are the ones we never planned to take.
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