January 2010
Intermediate to advanced
176 pages
7h 54m
English

Photograph by Jen Siska
The Scenario: You’ve had a long and crappy day at work. What’s more, it’s raining. Hard. You pile into the front seat of your car with your umbrella, waterproof storm coat, and briefcase, comforted only by the sight of a zip-lock plastic bag with homemade cookies. You plug in your cellphone, secure it to the hands-free mount on the dashboard, start the engine, and hit the road.
Traffic sucks, so you decide to get off the highway onto a winding, back-road shortcut that runs along the nearby river. Which would’ve been fine, until a deer suddenly darts across the road, causing you ...