Thomas Shostak

Drifters Thomas Shostak

In addition to being natural story tellers, we human beings are, and always have been, drifters, wanderers, seekers, and searchers. In a global sense, we are drifting through space on a large sphere of water and rock. In a more specific sense, we move from place to place, or simply from one village to the next; sometimes it is just wandering -- with no direction, no purpose -- and other times we know exactly where we are going. And it is often from this searching and wandering that our stories, whether personal or communal, are developed and passed along. Drifters is a book about searchers, drifters, and -- basically, travelers of all stripes, each with a unique set of outcomes. Some have found what they were looking for, but most have found something unanticipated, as it not only is with most of our travels and searches, but with a good short story as well. We continue to wander, and we learn to expect the unexpected.