Finding the Warrior Within

Finding the Warrior Within

Gasping for breath. Sweat stinging my eyes. Stabbing pain exploding in my knee. I pause to catch the fleeting air in my lungs and gather my wits. I’m surrounded by fallen trees and leafless brush. Behind me is the roar of the waterfall. Above me the impenetrable...
Spiders in the Dark

Spiders in the Dark

At 6:30 in the morning, you can’t see what the spiders have been up to. You’re blind to their sticky little deeds. You’re hapless up to that sudden moment when a mesh of gooey webbing stretches over your eyelids and into your lips and you howl in...