The Rope Bridge
The drizzle started when the bus dropped me off.
Travel abroad stories
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: Indigo Highway, Lantern of Starling and Cedar Refrain. Readers usually start with “The Weight of Everything” and “The Dare Exchange”. Ranked by how many readers finish them. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
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21 22 The Florist's Lesson
The iron gate of the rental had roses worked into the bars.
23 The Sundial's Chime
I am forty-three years old, I work in a museum in Manchester, and two months ago my girlfriend of four years moved out and told me she…
24 Bitters and Bonds
I was sitting at a café on the cliff road in Vila do Mar, drinking a lager I didn't really like and thinking about my marriage in the…
25 The Locked Gallery
I'm Colette Zimmer, thirty-two, and I clean a university for a living.
26 The Borrowed Notes
Oliver Brice landed in Reykjavik on a Friday in late October, thirty-four years old and feeling every single one of them.
27 The Tango Lesson
My youngest moved into his dorm in August, and by September the house was so quiet I could hear the refrigerator thinking.
28 The Night We Sank
I don't sing.
29 The Leipzig Suit
I turned thirty-three on a Tuesday, and I spent the afternoon of my birthday lost in Leipzig on purpose.
30 The Ruined Torta
*I wanted to write a revenge story where the weapon is genuine surprise, not cruelty.
31 Walls Between Us
The bookshelf broke on a Tuesday, which felt about right for my life that month.
32 High Voltage
My bus died somewhere in the middle of nowhere, Argentina, and I mean the actual middle.
33 Truck Stop Desire
Sixteen hours.
34 The Bavarian Brew
The beer hall hit me like a wall of noise and I loved it.
35 Root and Spindle
The road up to the ranger station had been washed out twice since the last dry season, and Ella's old Toyota FJ spent most of the climb in…
36 The Operator's Last Night
Kimmy was forty-two years old and she had spent most of those years talking to machines.
37 Lucky Exposure
I want to tell you about the camera first.
38 Translation Problems
Kyla lay in the hammock and listened to the street.
39 Latex Reunion
I'd been on that fetish forum for five years.
40 Canvas of Distance
*This one's for anyone who's ever crossed an ocean just to touch someone's hand.
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10 to 30 minutesBest travel abroad stories of 2026Writers known for it
Indigo Highway, Lantern of Starling, Cedar Refrain, Jasper Narrative
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