“Do you really give a shit?” I replied.

“I do if someone knows where to come looking for it.”

I smirked back, “Good thing the person I got it from doesn’t need it anymore.”

Polman peered at me from under his hood, his grey hair falling down over his eyes, “They better not. Did you make sure?”

I pushed my right foot against the table, leaning my chair back while eyeing my fingernails. “Don’t r...

“Let me see her.” A muffled female voice said.

I opened my eyes to complete darkness. My head throbbed, and something warm and wet was crawling down the right side of my face. Blood, I thought. I went to wipe it away but realized my hands had been duct taped together behind the back of the chair I sat in.

Footsteps loudly approached, from where I couldn’t say. Maybe my right? I had to squint w...

“Diogenes, come out and share with us!”

My head pounded with each tap on whatever shell I’d made my home in. What did he just call me? Why did I hear so many people clamoring around outside? As a matter of fact, where was I?

I crawled toward the light, toward the feet and sandals I saw on the other side. When my shoulders emerged, a pair of hands grabbed onto me, hoisting me to my feet.

Hundre...

“I’m thinking it might be time we turn around.” Savannah said

Rob didn’t look at her this time. He kept his head straight to focus on the winding mountain road, barely illuminated by the Volvo’s headlights. “And where, exactly, should I do that?” Rob took one hand off the steering wheel, sweeping it from left to right to point out the raging river to their left and the steep cliff face to their r...