The Honest Pilgrim

The Journey of Impossible Answers

Every answer runs out. This book begins where they stop. A boy collects questions the way other children collect stones, and he has noticed something no adult will admit: their answers run out, usually three questions deep. Then his grandfather dies in the middle of a sentence, and the boy takes down an old hand-drawn map and asks for the road. Fifteen Steps lie between his gate and the small mark at the end of the longest road. A fable meant to be taken slowly: one Step a night, then twenty minutes outside with nothing in your hands.

19,451 words, a single-sitting read. Available as ebook, paperback and hardcover.