A Short Story: Into the Woods

Author’s Note: I lucked into a box of writer’s prompts recently and, as a creative exercise, wanted to use this space to share the output from some of my writing sessions. Here’s how it works: I draw two cards from the box and write whatever comes to mind — it’s that simple. The cards drawn for this, the third story in the series, were: “reluctant participant” and “woods.” Below is my interpretation of that combination. I’d love to see…