Sixty Six

If you find yourself suddenly caught in an avalanche, take a deep breath and hold it. In most cases, you'd suffocate much more quickly than you'd freeze to death. What else. Your first instinct will be to try to dig your way out, but if the avalanche has tumbled you over you a few times, you won't be able to tell which way is up. You could be digging sideways. I'm sorry.

Sixty Five

The place where we almost died is just up ahead, beyond those trees. There are no sharp turns or hidden driveways. There are no unmarked railroad crossings or abandoned quarries nearby. There are no missing warning signs, stolen and hung in a bedroom somewhere. You will not see tire tracks scorched across the blacktop and out into the fields. We didn't scream and it didn't happen in slow motion. There's nothing there.