Excerpt from REVELATION

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Was the creature standing over her waiting to…what? What did a Bigfoot do with the people it caught? The only stories she’d heard were about people seeing just a glimpse of it. Motionless, she held her breath and waited. Chest burning. Head throbbing, dizzy. She dared not open her eyes, but finally, she had to breathe. Michelle gulped the fresh air greedily, fully expecting it would be her last breath.

Nothing.

With her eyes opened to slits, she looked out through the bushes. The creature wasn’t anywhere in her narrow slice of vision.

What if it was standing just a few feet away behind her but hadn’t seen her yet?

  

Even though her mind screamed “Run,” her arms refused to push her body up, and her legs were like lead weights bolted to the ground.

    The creature could probably hear her ragged breathing. But it hadn’t snatched her up.Yet.

    Michelle closed her eyes and willed her mind, and her breathing, to quiet down. She listened. The wind moaned in the trees. A crow’s caw-caw bounced into the distance. The water cascaded down the creek bed. Cautiously, she opened her eyes again. This time, even though she still couldn’t bring herself to move, she dared to turn her head to look around.

When she looked over her shoulder, she glimpsed a massive brown hulk only a foot behind her. She squealed and scrambled away. With some distance between her and it, she spun around to face the beast, tripped, and fell backward into a blackberry bramble. Thorns tore through her shirt and dug into her back and shoulders. Tears fogged her vision. Stuck in the bramble, there was no further escape. She was as far away from the creature as she could get in the small clearing.

Michelle was cornered.

Survival instinct took over. She clenched her fists, braced her legs, and growled. The creature might take her down, but it would have a fight on its hands. 

She hadn’t yet dared to look directly at the creature. But now she raised her eyes and glared defiantly...     

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