Kat Kruger

He doesn__ move a muscle except for his eyes that follow her path as though somehow he can see her contrails. His whole existence revolves around a girl who left his orbit, and he was the one who spun her off her axis.

There__ a long, uncomfortable silence in which I contemplate what might happen next. Maybe like the villain in a movie, this is where she gives me a long spiel about her hard-up life before she kills me. Not that I totally believe she__ nefarious. Real life isn__ made up of heroes and villains. Just ordinary people making choices they have to live with.

To them he__ the slightly less frightening alternative to the grim reaper.

Among wilderness survival tips, punching a wild animal in the face probably isn__ on a checklist.