"You hold my life in your hands."
Isadora and Asher are two urban explorers taking their turn to rise to fame on the popular platform of YouTube. Their YouTube channel, Trades of Travel, shares their nomadic lifestyle as they travel, bringing their viewers along for enjoyable adventures in historic abandoned places around the globe. This rise to mainstream popularity, however, results in consequences unforeseen to the two as they now have to navigate and face their complex relationship with each other, hardships, and fame until they take matters into their own hands the grasp the tendrils of peace that they crave.
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Isadora pointed at the cracked entrance of the building they were going to enter and then pointed at the window next to it. Her eyes nearly sparkled, shifting her weight between her feet, "How much ya wanna bet I could dive and make it through the window instead?-"
"Isa...no..." Asher sighed, moving the camera to have Isadora in frame.
"Isa yes?" Isadora responded, stepping over chunks of broken glass, moving towards the window. She inspected it, looking through before sighing heavily, "Isa no. There's too much broken glass. We gotta be normal apparently."
"It's almost like I told you not to do it," Asher chuckled.
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Disclaimers:
Updates MWF at 5:00AM EST. The story is told by using traditional storytelling but also a handful of transcripted media and social media posts present in the book. ALL the locations Trades of Travel explore are fictional. There's a handful of triggers including: stalking, sexually explicit content, swearing, mention of murder and general crime, mention of mental illness and suicide, and mild violence and hunting of animals.
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𝐓𝐚𝐫𝐚 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐚
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