Everything She Feared by Rick Mofina EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Authors: Rick Mofina
- Language: English
- Genre: Women’s Psychological Fiction
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Near North Bend, Washington
SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD ANNA SHAW didn’t want to die.
Adrenaline surged through every nerve ending, her fingers digging into
the tree branch jutting from the cliffside.
This was a nightmare. It couldn’t be real.
But it is real.
Anna had been atop the cliff, taking in the breathtaking panoramic view
of the river, forests and mountains. Then in a heartbeat she was falling,
falling some twenty feet, crashing into the big twisting branch sticking from
the cliff face, catching herself, seizing it, struggling to hang on as it bent,
now threatening to give way.
Gasping, she looked in horror a hundred feet straight down to the rocks at
the banks of the rushing river below.
Wind gusted up, nudging her dangling legs. As she hung on for life, the
branch cracked, her body jolted.
“Oh God!”
Anna glanced up at nine-year-old Katie Harmon looking down at her
from the clifftop.
“Katie! Get help!”
Transfixed, Katie stared in wide-eyed silence.
Anna strained to move along the weakening branch closer to the cliff face
to find a hold on the craggy rocks.
But pulling herself caused the branch to bob and shake, crackling more
under her weight. Her hands landed on short branch spikes, like protruding
nails piercing her palms with electrifying pain.
Suddenly the branch split and Anna jounced a few feet lower, clawing,
clinging on to the fibrous remains.
“Katie!” she shrieked. “Oh God!”
Anna looked up.
Katie was gone.
The branch cracked again.
Run!
Every part of Katie’s brain screamed at her to run.
She flew along the trail, twisting, turning through the dense woods,
hoping to catch up to the others who had continued moving ahead.
Anna’s fall had happened in a terrible instant.
So real and so frightening.
And no one else knows! No one was with us to see!
Katie willed herself to run fast, faster than she’d ever run in her life.
She felt like she was moving in slow motion but she blazed along the
trail, coming to the clearing where her group from the Sunny Days Youth
Center was setting up.
Katie glimpsed the joyful calm, nearly thirty kids and a sprinkling of
adults supervising the day trip from the city, oblivious to the horror now on
the cliff they’d all just passed. The boys were moving picnic tables together,
others tossed a Frisbee. The girls were opening backpacks, tearing into
snacks and drinks while others took pictures.
It all stopped when Katie screeched: “Help!”
Heads turned, smiles melted, the Frisbee crashed.
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