hatchet · survival · canadian wilderness · brave · miserable · divorced parents · secret · plane crash · resilient · realistic fiction
The jungle silence swallowed the roar of the engines. Brian stared upward, eyes wide with disbelief as the plane vanished into the canopy, missing him by inches. His last tether to civilization snapped. Gravity reclaimed him; he collapsed onto a jagged rock, gaze fixed on the empty sky where hope had just fled.