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Stories: the Long Way Home
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781959602774
Publisher: Alavida Publishing
Published: Jun 3 2026
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.49 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Some wisdom cannot be lectured. It has to arrive sideways, in the middle of a story, when the reader's defenses are down and something true slips through.
STORIES: THE LONG WAY HOME brings together fifteen stories from across the ancient world. From the mellah of Fez and the courts of Mughal India, to the coastal villages of Japan and the misty highlands of Celtic lands. Each story carries the texture and spirit of the culture it comes from. Each one asks, beneath all of that, the same essential question: what does it cost a person to finally become honest about who they are?
A king walks his city in disguise and discovers what his crown has been hiding. A candle watches the sunrise and understands its own purpose. A girl of ten receives a question from her dying grandfather and spends sixty years learning what she was given. A merchant loses everything in a desert storm and finds the one thing the wind cannot take. A fisherman dreams a wave before it arrives, and wonders, afterward, whether anyone is listening to what the world is showing them.
The wisdom is inside the story itself, felt before it is understood, and remembered long after the reading is done.
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