7:1 – Part Two Dan kept his eyes on the paper, taking several long breaths, after reading the last line. Ivan thumped his head against the arm braced against the wall and gave a muffled curse. Siobhan looked everywhere except at her friends. The wall, the table, her hands, the table, the door. Her headContinue reading “Enter The Woods – 7:1 – Part 2”
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Enter The Woods – 7:1 / Interlude – Kim
7:1 – Interlude – Kim Kim A carbon nanotube beach-tumbleweed, a kinetic sculpture that never stops shifting and changing its configuration, it is easy to get lost in the chaos of her mind. Keep your feet moving, your arms churning, and always keep a step ahead so the spun-sugar strands the color of a happyContinue reading “Enter The Woods – 7:1 / Interlude – Kim”
Enter The Woods – 7:1 – Act 1
7:1 – Act One “I saw you take the comb.” Ben looked around the table, determining what his friends were doing and buying himself time to respond to Dempsey’s quiet statement. Gwen was across the way, leaning on the bar and talking to Patti who was pulling pints for them. Prairie sat by the tapestry-coveredContinue reading “Enter The Woods – 7:1 – Act 1”
Enter The Woods 6:11
6:11 The stairs around the tower were much easier to navigate now that their surface wasn’t uniformly black. And, also, now that they weren’t being chased up them by an omnivorous shadow. That, specifically, made the climb up to the next level easier. It also made it very easy to see the shining yellow tentaclesContinue reading “Enter The Woods 6:11”
Enter The Woods 6:10
6:10 Laughing under her breath, Siobhan put her hand on the square symbol. The lack of explosion was gratifying and it led her to press the triangle and then the circle again. There was a clunk sound from the wall and then a whooshing as a chunk of the wall slid forward like it wasContinue reading “Enter The Woods 6:10”
Enter The Woods 6:9
6:9 “Gwen,” Kim called over her shoulder. “Faster.” “Move it!” Gwen hollered up the stairs and then upped her pace. Kim kept her back plastered to Gwen’s, her shoulder pressed to the curving wall, and the light out in front of her. It made for an awkward climb, but she wasn’t exactly sure she wantedContinue reading “Enter The Woods 6:9”
Enter The Woods 6:8
6:8 By the time Siobhan dove back to the bottom of the cave Kim was waiting for her near the sealed door, holding a piece of stone with the other half of the triangle for sulfur. Siobhan gave a thumbs up and grabbed the stone from Kim, then swam over and placed it in theContinue reading “Enter The Woods 6:8”
Enter The Woods 6:7
6:7 After handing his piece off to Siobhan, Ivan shot back for the surface. The sight that greeted his eyes as he cleared the water was of pandemonium. Somehow in the time it had taken Ivan to swim down, determine the challenge, search for the piece he found, then come back up for air, waterContinue reading “Enter The Woods 6:7”
Enter The Woods 6:6
6:6 “Who wants to go for a swim in rat-infested waters?” Kim added because it had to be said. “That would be a solid not me!” Ben called from the darkness. “And in a dark cave with the potential to drown?” “Wow, you’re really selling this, aren’t you?” Dempsey muttered, wandering over to squat nextContinue reading “Enter The Woods 6:6”
Enter The Woods 6:5
6:5 “That is a tower,” Gwen declared, straddling the ground like it was going to go somewhere and planting her hands on her hips, all Paul Bunyon with Plunger. And looking up – way up – at the tower on the top of a small plateau, situated above a dark lake on which the fullContinue reading “Enter The Woods 6:5”
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