Stories evoke complex emotional geographies of place that connect across different scales, from the intimate to the global. Stories enable us to draw connections between major forces of injustice, such as climate change, and uneven consequences for particular people and places, collapsing the distance seemingly stretched across space and time between contribution and consequence. Through stories, attention can be focused upon processes that contribute to harm, and potentially marginalised experiences and acts of resistance and repair, invoking a politics of responsibility. In this chapter I consider how stories of absence and loss reveal what people value, and how such stories can act as a guide towards other ways of being in the world that challenge dominant power relations. The chapter argues that through engagement with such stories, we can appreciate the power of stories to counter hegemonic power and enact alternative imaginaries and relations with place.