A book by Donna Voss
Gone Surfing!: Ice Queen’s Cave
Travel across oceans and generations in a collection of short stories and poems that connects surfing, family, aviation, military remembrance, imaginative characters, and the experiences people share around the world.
Children’s fiction
Poetry
Travel and History
About the book
A wide world connected by stories
The world may seem vast and endless, yet the people, memories, and experiences within it are often closer than they appear.
Gone Surfing!: Ice Queen’s Cave is a collection of short stories and poems that moves between imaginative adventure, family history, travel, service, and remembrance. A surfer’s journey crosses oceans and continents before returning home, while other sections connect world-class pilots with children living on a farm and honor the experiences of veterans returning from war.
The book begins with movement: a warm southern wind carries the journey from Southern California to coastlines across the world. Each destination is accompanied by colorful wave imagery, giving the travel narrative a visual rhythm of its own.
When the journey returns to the Ice Queen’s Cave, the collection opens into stories of friendship, ancient land traditions, historical figures, aviation, family memory, and military service. Together, these pieces show how art, history, nature, and human experience can meet within one imaginative world.
A journey carried by the wind
From Southern California to distant shores—and home again
The opening journey follows the movement of wind and waves across a remarkable series of coastal destinations.
Mexico and Costa Rica
Warm winds, sandy shores, and the beginning of a far-reaching adventure.
Ecuador and Hawaii
Across the equatorial breeze and over the great Pacific Ocean.
Indonesia and Mozambique
A wild crossing followed by a slower drift with time to think.
Western Sahara and Portugal
Atlantic Ocean sand and the changing rhythm of the journey.
Scotland and Home
From the Highlands near the Arctic Sea back to a welcome home.
Inside the collection
Stories that travel across time and experience
The book brings together imaginative scenes, historical memories, and voices shaped by family, service, and community.
Wind and Waves
A surfing journey moves across the world through changing winds, coastlines, and painted ocean scenes.
Ice Queen’s Cave
Imaginative characters gather as stories, questions, memories, and messages from the land begin to unfold.
Aviation and Family
A historic account connects Western Air pilots with children and a family living in the desert.
Service and Remembrance
Poems honor wartime service, the return from Iwo Jima, and the memory of those who did not return home.
At the heart of the book
Connections that cross every distance
The collection’s changing forms and subjects are united by ideas that continue from one story to the next.
Global Connection
Travel reveals how distant places remain linked through nature and shared human experience.
Home and Belonging
After movement across the world, returning home carries a deeper sense of gratitude and welcome.
Memory and Service
Family histories and wartime poems preserve stories of courage, sacrifice, and remembrance.
Nature and Healing
Wind, water, land, movement, and play become sources of reflection, connection, and renewal.
The journey in color
Wave artwork from across the world
Painted ocean scenes accompany the surfing journey, giving each destination its own visual energy and sense of place.
For curious readers
A collection for those who enjoy more than one kind of journey
Gone Surfing!: Ice Queen’s Cave moves freely between poetry, short prose, travel, history, art, fantasy, and remembrance.
Its variety makes the book a distinctive choice for readers interested in the connections between places, generations, family stories, and the events that shape collective memory.
Travel and surfing readers
For those drawn to coastlines, movement, and journeys across the world.
Readers of stories and poems
For those who appreciate a collection that moves between literary forms.
History and remembrance readers
For those interested in aviation, family memory, military service, and the past.
Imaginative and reflective readers
For those who enjoy stories where reality, memory, nature, and imagination meet.
About the author
Stories shaped by imagination and human connection
Donna Voss is an author and community advocate whose work reflects her appreciation for creativity, history, cultural traditions, sustainable learning, empathy, and the relationships that bring people together.
Begin the journey
Follow the wind, the waves, and the stories home
Discover a collection that crosses oceans and generations while bringing travel, art, family history, service, and imagination into one connected reading experience.