Time
Roger Reid
NewSouth Books
Montgomery
Also by Roger Reid
NewSouth Books
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Copyright 2013 by Roger Reid. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by NewSouth Books, a division of NewSouth, Inc., Montgomery, Alabama.
ISBN: 978-1-58838-262-7
eBook ISBN: 978-1-60306-100-1
Library of Congress Control Number: 2010025671
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Contents
Jason’s Adventures Continue. . .
1
It was 4:10. Then it was 4:45. And there was nothing in between.
Then it was five minutes after five.
At twenty minutes till six, I was able to see beyond the watch hanging from my belt, and I could see that my feet were pointed uphill. I remember thinking, I’ve rolled down a mountain before.
Then it was six o’clock.
No pain, I said to myself, and I think I said it out loud.
I tried to sit up. I rose up on my elbows. It was too steep. I didn’t want to lie back down, so I scooted around to get my feet lower than my head. The rocks beneath me wobbled with an odd sound. Horses—it sounded like horses clomping down a city street.
Then it was 6:15.
I know because I glanced at my watch when I sat up to look down. It was about fifty yards to the bottom of the steep slope where I was resting. Fifty yards, that would be about forty-five meters, I thought.
