“ Help!!!” Tamara shouted only to be answered by the eerie silence of the road.

The man who called himself ‘Ghost’ had taken her from a better road to a more isolated one, then dumped her there.

“ That son of a bitch,” she cursed as she dragged herself along the road, fear seething through her bones, anger and frustration weakening her hands that had her heels dangling from her tired fingers.

She looked at her phone again and let out a sound caught between laughter and sobs as the supposed lifeline to civilization displayed a mocking ‘No service’

“Why is the universe so against me?” she cried with her...