“You’ve always been in the way,” my sister whispered, shoving me out of the chopper while my husband watched, silent and complicit for the $5M payout. Everyone thought I was dead. But when I pushed open the church doors during my funeral service, my husband went pale. I locked eyes with him and said…

have time to scream as gravity seized me, pulling me backward into the freezing abyss.

Chapter 2: The Fall and the Forest

A human body in freefall accelerates to terminal velocity at roughly one hundred and twenty miles per hour. I remember the paralyzing silence of the air rushing past my ears, the chopper shrinking into a tiny metallic insect above continue reading …