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• Author: C.M. Owens
• ISBN: B07JCXMD47
• Language: English
• Genre: Literary Fiction
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• Page: 317
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PIPER
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“You have no idea the hell I had to go through just to get
out to this cabin. I’ve already faced death three times more
than I have in my entire life,” I tell the deer as I throw the rope
I found randomly lying outside my late grandmother’s cabin.
The rope lands right beside the struggling deer, who is
trying to climb out of the hole in the ice, water splashing as the
deer makes pitiful sounds of distress. I whimper when I realize
the deer isn’t smart enough to bite down on the rope and let
me pull it out.

“I’m only doing this because of Bambi. That damn movie
broke my heart, and I’ve been pro-deer ever since,” I say on a
whimper as I ease out onto the ice, already slipping and
dancing around to keep my balance.

I try to stay away from the softer patches that don’t appear
as frozen, as I quickly fashion a noose. I know it’s morbid, but
it’s the only rope-tying trick I know that will be of any help.
Thank my medieval-obsessed father.
This may be the one time I ever use this knowledge for…
anything at all.

It takes a few tries, but I finally manage to loop the deer’s
neck, and I pull quickly. After some really panicked
struggling, I manage to free the small fawn from the water.
It’s too still, and I hurriedly—but very carefully—slide
across the ice on my hands and knees to undo the noose before
I accidentally kill it while trying to save the damn thing.
It’s just limp as I make haste freeing its neck, and my
breaths fog in front of my face as I bend over to listen for a
heartbeat.

Just as my hair touches its stomach, the wild thing leaps up
with a battle cry that scares the shit out of me, and I yelp as I
crash backwards.
My eyes widen as the deer runs off, just as the ice beneath
me cracks with one split-second warning before I’m plunged
into icy water.

Everything happens so terrifyingly fast. My life doesn’t
even have time to flash before my eyes this time like it has the
other three times today.

A bloodcurdling scream is shut off when I’m suddenly
sucking painfully cold water into my lungs. My body feels like
it’s on fire and freezing at once, as I scramble to push myself
back to the surface. Fortunately, I pop up in the same huge
hole I’ve made, instead of getting stuck under the ice—a
freshly realized fear of mine.

Just as my hands grip the edge of the burning cold ice,
something firm grabs my wrist. In the next instant, I’m
completely yanked out of the water and dragged over the edge.
My entire body is shaking so hard, and my vision is
dimming as something loud chatters. I think it’s my teeth. I’m
not really sure what’s going on—everything and nothing and
something else too.

I feel myself moving, but I’m too disoriented to take in
exactly what’s happening.

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