JIH Chapter 9: Jungle for the Trees
Thick tangled vines with pulsating orange veins, red serrated leaves that cut like paper, and barbed thorns blocked my way. Yellow, viscid sap squirted out of any vine I managed to slice, but it was less cutting and more beating them into...
JIH Chapter 8: Point the Way
"Zoe!" I sloshed through a mire with the consistency and color of old, runny pistachio pudding. The stench was overwhelming and I concentrated on keeping my stomach down. The wide space between several of the ancient fallen trees had...
JIH Chapter 3: A Snail's Pace
Okay, it would be really nice if I could wake up, because I was definitely dreaming. There's no way that the horror that I was backpedaling from could be real. There was something like a snail following me, only it was huge! A...
JIH Chapter 2: Knife to Meet You
It was a trick. It had to be, there was no other explanation. I waved my phone around, trying to acclimate my eyes to the poor lighting. I sloshed through ankle deep water as I wandered back and forth where the door had...
JIH Chapter 1: A Ticket to Anywhere
The airport was a madhouse. Christmas day was looming and the weather wasn't eager to cooperate. Everyone had somewhere else to be for the holiday and no time left to get there. Delays, delays, delays... everything was behind even as more people filed...
JIH Chapter 6: Bask in the Glow
The shrubbery started to get denser, larger, and healthier as the ground continued to level out. The loose shale gave way to large chucks of rocks and boulders that had long since rolled down the mountainside, forcing me to climb over or...