Travel Short Stories

The UnNamed Traveler is back with his second collection of adventure--and misadventure!-- stories from around the world: Full of humor, romance and his favorite sports—eating and drinking, and drinking and eating! Experience Cuba, China, and Europe--and MORE!--without waiting in the TSA line!

In the summer of 2021 amidst a world-wide pandemic, Donna Fletcher Crow, her daughter-in-law, and granddaughter managed to slip through a narrow window of calm for a remarkable journey to France and Switzerland. And much to Donna’s surprise and delight, she was accompanied on the undertaking by characters from several of her novel series—who had adventures of their own. Going There, Tales from the Riviera and Beyond, is an account of a memorable travel experience in the real world and the fictional. It takes the reader to places physical and imaginary, and like all good books, expands ...

When Richard Lucchesi invites his mom to join his young family on a whirlwind tour through Italy, he’s hoping for quality time and postcard memories. What he gets is a full-blown comedy of errors involving lost passports, multiple police units, pickpockets, missed trains, ancient ruins, caffeine-induced breakdowns, and one absolutely unforgettable trip across Italy from Milan to Tuscany, Napoli, Pompeii, and beyond. In this side-splitting travel memoir, Grandma Backpacks Italy chronicles the chaos and charm of three generations navigating trains, tantrums, and tiramisu. From unbelievable ...

Now in its 3rd edition, complete with fresh design and extra stories, the evergreen 'Voices' collection of Seychelles short stories by Glynn Burridge describes the strange secrets, realities and fantasies of life on Seychelles' Outer Islands where the author lived for two decades. Reviewed by the BBC as 'beautiful and powerful', 'Voices' was also selected by journalist and author Anne Morgan as one of her preferred Seychelles books as she read her way around the world and will lead you on an unforgettably rich literary adventure into the twilight of the fast-disappearing world of the true ...

Sally has recently left an unfulfilling job to volunteer at a living history museum, where she is assigned to the Death House. Every day, she dons Victorian mourning garb and describes traditional funeral services to tourists. It sounds depressing as hell, but for Sally, it’s less depressing than her tepid marriage to her childhood sweetheart. This becomes all too clear when she accidentally travels through time and space to a liminal world where the ghosts of the living history museum haunt its grounds. There, she meets and falls hard for Victorian-era pretty boy Nathaniel.

Embark on your Italian learning adventure with Italian Short Stories for Beginners (A1) – Travel and Transport Edition. This carefully curated collection presents 20 bite-sized, real-world tales set in airports, train stations, bus stops, taxis, and more—each written at the A1 level to ensure clarity and build your confidence from the very first sentence.

Leave your preconceived notions at home as you embark on a mind-bending journey with six of today’s most visionary authors. Brimming with humor and heartache, this collection of short stories maps the roads we took to get here and the paths that lie ahead. The present may be a gift, but the future and the past both come with a price.

A fascinating collection of travellers' tales, featuring weird innkeepers, ghouls and ghosts, robbers and murderers, card sharpers and confidence tricksters, dead bodies in odd places....the very thing for anyone busy planning a vacation this year....

Not one to let being banged up in Sick Bay stop her, Max has had a brilliant idea. But she needs Markham to execute it on her behalf. The subject of this cunning plan is Peterson, struggling with another bereavement and not doing very well. What’s needed to get him through it is sympathy, sensitivity, tact and understanding. Step forward Mr Markham, for whom sympathy, sensitivity, etc., are things that happen to other people.

This audiobook, read by Audie award-winning narrators, includes unabridged recordings of all Mark Twains's greatest works: 12 novels; over 120 of his beloved short stories; Chapters From My Autobiography; 5 pieces of short non-fiction; and 6 pieces of his groundbreaking, wide-ranging travel writing.

The complete set of volumes I - IV of the Immortals series of short stories. Follow the adventures of two immortal souls born and reborn throughout time. Always destined to re-find each other in each life, follow their adventures as they fight to be together against evil and find a way to remain together forever. Nature finally throws in a new immortal. A young girl with time travelling capabilities to add to her immortal status. Exciting SciFi action adventure. At this price, this collection of stories is a real bargain!

Like a smaller and much scruffier Greta Garbo - finally - Markham speaks! It's Christmas and time for the first (and almost certainly last) St Mary's Annual Children's Christmas Party - attendance compulsory, by order of Dr Bairstow. Discovered practising his illegal reindeer dance and poo-dropping routine, our hero, along with fellow disaster magnets Peterson and Maxwell, is dispatched to Anglo-Saxon England to discover the truth about Alfred and the cakes.

"How to Write a Short Time-Travel Story: A Comprehensive Guide to Past, Present, and Future Travel" is your indispensable guidebook to crafting compelling Time-Travel stories. This comprehensive book will walk you through every step of writing a short Time-Travel story, from conceptualizing your Time-Travel mechanics to creating authentic time-displaced characters. Learn how to balance historical accuracy with speculative imagination, deal with paradoxes, and structure narratives seamlessly blending the past, present, and future. The book also discusses editing, receiving feedback, and ...

When 21-year-old Ryan Laurent arrives in a posh, sleepy American suburb for a summer exchange program, he brings with him an irresistible mix of charm, curiosity, and chaos. Free-spirited and delightfully unfiltered, Ryan is determined to make the most of his three months abroad. Next door to his host family lives Nick Ellis, a reclusive young man who barely leaves his house and hardly speaks to anyone. To the neighborhood, he's a mystery. To Ryan, he's a challenge. What begins as a series of awkward encounters soon blossoms into something deeper, as Ryan's bold nature slowly chips away at ...

Everyone deserves to get away for a bit. Even the miscreants at St Mary's. Astonishingly, Dr. Bairstow has declared a holiday. Even more astonishingly - he's paying for it. Needless to say, there are strings attached. They have to record the 1601 performance of Hamlet, with Shakespeare himself in the role of the Ghost. It doesn't go well, of course.

Grumble globally. Laugh locally. Step into the polished shoes of Britain’s most opinionated old lords as they blunder, bicker, and sip their way through international diplomacy, domestic crises, and improperly brewed tea. Whether facing haunted Scottish inns, Far Eastern tea rituals, or bridge scandals in the drawing room, these noble curmudgeons always carry one thing: a deeply held belief that everything was better in 1903. The Noble Art of Grumbling is a sharp, satirical anthology of short stories for fans of P.G. Wodehouse, dry British wit, and eccentric gentlemen hopelessly out of ...

It’s Christmas again at St Mary's and time for Max’s obligatory illegal jump. On this occasion, however, they’re right up against it. A loaded gun has been left behind in Ancient Egypt, and it’s up to them to retrieve it before anyone accidentally blows their own head off, thus affecting the timeline for centuries to come. And as if that’s not enough, someone (Max) has inadvertently poisoned Mr Markham. It’s hot, they’re running out of supplies, they can’t find the gun and it’s all going horribly wrong. Again.

This portal fantasy romance collection includes A Laird for All Time, A Time & Place for Every Laird, Taken, Love in the Time of a Highland Laird, and A Laird to Hold.

Exciting, Thrilling, Sci-Fi, Time Travel Adventure. Alice and Jack are immortal. Reborn throughout time, they meet each time and spend a new life together. After hearing they are not the only immortals on earth, they decide to search for others. They are shocked to find another pair of immortal, who unusually have a child.. but this is a child with unique abilities! Good Read!

Sarai wasn’t like the other go-go dancers. She knew that a few thousand pounds a year would be enough to take care of her whole family, but Sarai wasn’t dancing just to send money home every month. She had discovered that selling tickets for the illegal Thai Lottery was more dangerous than she could ever have imagined, and now she owed a great deal of money. Thai Lottery is the story of the lengths a girl will go to when a debt becomes a matter of life and death, and of the westerners who have bought their own tickets to a more personal lottery. They come to Thailand looking for ...