Jessica Curtis

Snake in the Grass

Sidney started awake at the sound of voices below her. She peered down, careful to stay hidden in the branches of her treetop hideaway. A group of men stalked through the woods. They were severely underweight and armed with guns and knives. Hunters, she thought, shrinking back at the sight of them. It was a common sight. Humans hunting humans for bounty and food. Most larger animals had been killed off. In the few communities that had cropped up the last five years, cannibalism of outsiders had become the norm to survive.