6 ON THE TRAIL
Somewhere in the forest
JAMES AWOKE ABRUPTLY. His head shot up instantly as if someone had just rocked him violently. But, nobody was there, only the winter gale howling through the trees and blasting against his face.
“s**t!” He shouted, his heart racing as if he had just escaped from someone.
Faded and weary, the man’s old body couldn’t take the constant running anymore. He was no longer young. Although James still had some fight left in him. He didn’t remember falling asleep, let alone venturing into the woods. But, there he was on the ground, leaning against that tree, eyes gaping through the icy limbs at the dark sky above him.
“What? Where the hell am I?” He asked himself, wiping his distressed eyes with his sleeve.
James had been experiencing periodic blackout
