Short Story English
The Road to the River
A short story placeholder for a road, a river, and the silence between departures.
- travel
- river
- fiction
The road to the river began behind the last tea stall, where the village thinned into fields and the fields thinned into scrub.
He had been told that the river was close, but distance in the hills was never a straight answer. It bent with the path, with the weather, with what a traveler carried and what he hoped to leave behind.