PocketDocs Running with Scissors: The Man with the AK-47 is my Friend

On a suggestion of a friend, I decided to enter the Australia Broadcasting Corporation’s (ABC) PocketDocs: Running with Scissors project. The objective was to write a 500 word story about a moment you did something reckless.

I decided to give it a go and entered a story about my first overseas travels as an adult, backpacking through Kenya and describing several of the risking situations I found myself in. ‘The Man with the AK-47 is my Friend’ got picked up and you can read it here.

May of my...