Boil
Copyright 2016 Brad Foster
Week 1
~ The first night ~
Have you ever had your fingers smashed by a car trunk? Or maybe they got caught in a slammed door when you were a kid. Regardless, none of that compares to the intense pain to which you snapped awake this morning. You couldn’t help but shout — or swear, if that’s your thing — from the feeling of a pipe wrench squeezing down on the fingers of your hand.
During your dark and dreamless sleep, your hand had slipped over the edge of your bed. You yank it back and grip it tightly with your other…