hatchet · survival · canadian wilderness · brave · miserable · divorced parents · secret · plane crash · resilient · realistic fiction
The jungle's quiet rushed in to fill the void where the engine noise had been. Brian stood frozen, watching the speck of the plane disappear into the treetops. It had missed him. The last fragile connection to the world he knew was severed. His knees buckled, and he dropped onto the sharp edge of a rock, his eyes empty, fixed on the vast, indifferent sky where his rescue had just vanished.