Meet Me In The Woods (excerpt)

My friend and I have been collaborating on a story. We both voice two different characters, a Father (My friend, John) and his Son (me).  This is just a little excerpt from the separate parts in the first chapter.  Collaborating on a story has its challenges but I feel like we have a good story and we can not wait to finish it.

“I felt a jolt in my soul and my eyes shot open. I felt like a seasick passenger on a boat surrounded by a stormy sea but I was stationary; I had sprung up from some sort of slumber and my hands were clammy and I had a cold sweat. I was sitting at the base of some sort of towering tree in a makeshift bird-like nest of moss and twigs and colorful stones. As far as my eyes could see were trees. No one tree stood apart from the other, an endless perpetual landscape of tall towering trees whose canopies plumed upwards. There was no sky, just treetops. It was like I was in the heart of the Amazon, only oddly enough there was no fauna; not an animal, bird, deer, bear, or insect to be seen.
I was alone.”

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“It was almost time for him to get on the plane. I was starting to cry because I am going to miss him so much.
“Adam, don’t cry, I will be back soon. “
“I know, but I’m going to miss you.”
“How about I give you my hat? That way, you won’t miss me so much.”
“Okay”.
That made me happy.
He hugged mommy and gave me a kiss before he left through a door that goes to the plane. The plane was so big, I think it could hold hundreds of people on it.
After waiting for a long time all the people finally got on the plane. When it started to move my mom picked me up so I could see better. It went so fast and started to fly up in the air. I want to be like my dad when I grow up.”

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