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Best Travel abroad Stories of 2026
The most-read travel abroad stories right now, in a short top ten and then picks by how you want to read. Travel abroad stories, from quick reads to long series. Most travel abroad stories here sit in romance and bdsm. Reads run 14 to 24 minutes. Writers to know: Cedar Refrain, Indigo Highway and Lantern of Starling. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
The top travel abroad stories
01 02 The Dare Exchange
The reunion was held in a barn outside the village, a big stone thing the hosts had rented for the weekend.
03 The Theremin Repair
The trouble started with a locked door and a dead phone.
04 The Horrible Ex-Exchange
I'm Isa, I'm twenty-five, and I'm in Lisbon because I'm petty.
05 Maid in Barcelona
I woke up before he did, which surprised me, because in my experience men who sleep over always wake first and start making noise in the…
06 Lighthouse After Hours
I landed in Keflavik on a Tuesday in November, fifty-five years old and wearing the same insulated jacket I wear for feeding cattle back…
07 The Wrong Sign
So here's how my Tuesday went.
08 The Organ Builder's Debt
I'm Maria Barnett, forty-four years old, and I run a canoe livery on the Biesbosch with my dad.
09 The Last Labyrinth
Alissa was forty-two years old and she had never once gotten lost in her own marriage until they moved to the village.
10 The Dust and the Dancer
The deal died at 11:40 in the morning, which I know because the clock on the wall of the conference room had a loud second hand and…
Longer travel abroad reads
The Exhaust Hanger Waltz
The minibus hit the last pothole before the cobbled lane and I grabbed the seat in front of me, said a small thank-you to nobody in…
The Morning Light in San Miguel
The sun came through the window of the casita in a long stripe across the bed.
Borderline Hostile
The trip was supposed to be my reward.
The Kayak Shed
We had been traveling for eleven hours by the time the taxi dropped us at the hotel, and the rain was coming down sideways the way it only…
The Wrong Villa
The suitcase wheel caught on the cobblestone for the tenth time and I nearly cried.