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4 – Run! It was dark. Wet and dark. They didn’t know where they were, but they weren’t at the campsite any longer. The surface beneath them didn’t feel like rocky dirt – and there was a distinct odor. Not the scent of fresh air – it was almost metallic. ∞ “Jean?” “Pat?! Is that you? Where are you?” “I don’t know. Can’t see.” “Can you move?” “Think so. You?” “No. Follow my voice.” “Kalie? Gwyn? Can you hear us?” Screams. “Kalie!” “Jean – run! Run!” More screams! “Kalie?!” “Gwyn?!” 5 – The Call 4 AM After several rings, the phone is answered in the master suite of Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm DeWitt. “Hello?” “Hello. This is Sheriff Windom with Grand Canyon Security. Is this Mr. DeWitt? Malcolm DeWitt?” “Yes. Who . . . ?” Sitting erect, Malcolm …show more content…

By sunrise – Malcolm and Sharon had contacted the other parents who were now gathered at their home and sitting around the breakfast bar nervously drowning themselves in coffee. They are: Rayburn and Katherine: Kalie’s parents; David and Beth: Pat’s parents; Stephen and Debra: Gwyn’s parents. Pat’s father, David had been on his cell for hours trying to find the sheriff who had called Malcolm – who apparently did not exist as neither Grand Canyon authorities nor surrounding towns had any record of him in their systems. Each of the parents had spent the entire morning trying to reach their daughters to no avail. Their cells rang – but none was answered. Except once, when Kalie’s father called his daughter’s cell and got an open-line sound – like the sound when a phone is left off the hook, accompanied by a high-pitched wailing noise filled with static that came somewhere from the background. After notifying real authorities: The U.S. Department of the Interior, then local and Arizonan law enforcement, and the real Grand Canyon Authority, by mid-morning the four fathers had dressed and were on their way to the last known location of their daughters – Tuweep. It was the only clue they had – and where they would begin their

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Personal Narrative Fiction