The Trip

Sandy had been driving for hours.  Her daughter had to be picked up from camp due to an injury, and it was the middle of the night.  She was getting tired, and it looked as though she had left civilization behind about an hour ago, but the GPS said she was going in the right direction, so she kept driving.  She looked at the dashboard clock and saw that she had been driving for four hours.  They had said it should only take about three hours, so she figured she must be lost. 

She tried Google Maps, and they immediately told her to take a u-turn.  She did, and followed the directions on her phone.  After a while, it seemed that she was just driving into the woods, but the directions said to keep going, so she did.  As the road narrowed, and turned into dirt, she knew she was lost in the middle of the night in the woods.  She stopped in the middle of the dirt road and reached for her phone to call the camp director.  Surely, he would know where she was and where she had gone wrong.  Just her luck ~ no signal.  She felt panic creeping in, and squelched it down.  If she panicked, she would be in real trouble. 

She wanted to turn around, but there was no place to do so, so she kept driving.  Suddenly, the “road” turned.  Sandy followed the turn, hoping it led to something.  It did, but not to anything she wanted to find.

As she eased forward, her car suddenly dipped down and the front end began sinking quickly.  She climbed out, stepping knee high in green, stinking, muck.  She turned on the flashlight on her phone, and shone it all around.  She was in the middle of some sort of marsh!  She watched as her car sank further.  The only thing she could do was begin walking back along that dark, narrow dirt road bordered on both sides by dense trees, and apparently, marsh. 

As she walked, she heard animal noises all around her.  All of a sudden, she heard a sound that could only have been made by something very large.  She looked to her left and screamed, knowing she would die lost, as an enormous creature stepped out from the trees, covered in marsh muck.