Ficlets

“RUN!” you shout. Before long, you’re rushing through the jungle. Vines and branches thwack against you as you zoom past, but you’re too fuelled by adrenaline to really focus on where you’re going.

Before long, you’re deep in the heart of a very thick jungle. You don’t know how long you’ve been running for, and Joe and Zoe aren’t with you anymore. Hopefully you only got split up. You daren’t consider the alternative.

You suddenly realise you’ve reached a small clearing. A dried patch of ground, slightly indented, suggests this may have been a small pond at one point. To the side is a tree, which has grown leaning over where the pond was, shading it. Attached to the tree is a rope – at one end is a log. At another is a rotting corpse. You cover your nose when the smell hits you.

What do you do now?

Go back and look for Joe and Zoe
Climb the tree in the hopes you can see more of the island from the top
Check the body