Short stories tagged with Quest Plot
Listing 6 stories.
In an apocalyptic future where Earth has been ravaged, a lonely man studies the stars until, one day, they come to him.
A mathematician tries to convince his machinist friend to travel through time with him, leading to a heated discussion of man’s hubris and the possible paradoxes that could open up if they disturb the time-space continuum.
When a teenage girl falls in love with a stargazer, she goes on a journey to build a kite that will allow her to float up in the stars so that her lover notices her.
A bounty hunter roaming the Texan and Mexican deserts meets a mysterious old man who saves him from his own hubris.
A violent boat captain struggles to transfer his animal cargo from Louisiana to Mississippi. His greatest obstacle to his waterborne journey and his absolute sworn enemy? Water lilies.
In an ancient Indian village, a young widow-turned-assassin receives her latest assignment: kill Alexander the Great.