Stories From the Edge of the Precipice

To answer Fi's comment on "The Path": yeah, the Path is the second chapter of a collection of stories that are connected together. The first chapter is 'Leaving". The idea is that you can either read each story on its own or you can start at the beginning middle or end and although each chapter makes sense alone it also is connected loosely with the other stories but no explanations are given as to how you go from one to the other, as that's up to the reader to imagine.