A short fantasy story, but George RR Martin wouldn’t like it because there aren’t any rapes.
Road to Torik
http://flscifi.blogspot.com/2015/09/short-story-road-to-torik.html
Pretty good. You really move a plot along and have the reading wanting to know what happens next.
The part about the road reminded me of a fact in one of Kathleen’s animal books (snow leopards): Mongolia is as large as the state of Alaska but has only 700 miles of paved roads.