Flash Friday # 53: Surviving Elsewhere Part 1: The Journey (Serial)

      The first I knew my life would take a turn for the worst was when I awoke to find my cousin Maggie standing over my bed.



I yelped -- first because she'd disappeared right after her fifteenth birthday three years ago, and second because in the hot summer night I only wore my underwear. I grabbed the sheet while sleep fled.


"I've seen you in your underwear, Mark," she whispered and