Scott Hubbartt: A Short Story

Suddenly my eyes flew open, the coldness slowly lingered away. My body felt warm. Almost as warm as how my mouth felt the last time I had sipped on my grandmother's tea. My grandmother always told me to have faith and to believe in the end everything would be alright. I felt the frigid saltwater against my skin. “Where am I?” I thought to myself. I couldn’t quite recall what had happened nor where I was. All that I could recall was hearing screams of innocent children and parents trying to comfort

got stranded in the mountains. It snowed most of November and all the people began starving and dying of mal nutrition. Most of the oxen died and all the wagons were long gone. Some men went to try to get help but they got

He knew that it was colder than fifty below zero when he tried to spit the juice from his chewing tobacco and it wasn't unable to clear his chin before it froze. "The result was that a crystal beard of the color and solidity of amber was increasing it’s length on his chin." Several times he comments that the cold was making his hands and feet numbed, and frostbite was killing his cheeks. He thinks, "What were frosted cheeks? A bit painful, that was all..." The man also lost circulation in his hands when he took off his gloves. He rubbed his face and beat his hands, but this only temporarily brought back the circulation. His fingers "seemed remote from his body" because he could not move them. Earlier, he ignored an initial sign from nature with a submerged spring because he wanted to get to “the boys” by six. Not long after he stepped through the ice into knee deep freezing water. The most obvious clues that the man took in were internal. "He wondered whether his toes were warm or numb." When he tried to light his last fire, his flesh burned. He knew it was burning because "he could smell it". He didn't even feel his hands burning. The man thought that it was "curious that one should have to use his eyes to find where his hands were." Eventually, no amount of running or thrashing could have awaken feeling in his body.

It was the hottest day of the year! The 2015 Minco Football Team went on their 1st annual Survival Trip and had a near death experience. The whole team got lost at Mt. Scott on the month of June. Some team members

Kneeling on the frozen snow nor feeling nor knowing what is beneath me?…. my cells are no longer responding… My body is shivering, begging me to stop…….My hands are pale as if my blood has frozen, barely moving, barely thinking, barely conscious. My glim of hope vanishing as I realise I won’t survive in this vast of white snow… Lost the sense of direction. How many days have I travelled? Believing in a glim that goes nowhere. Am I going insane? Not knowing the date nor the time nor someone to talk to but only myself. Only if my friend was here… What am I talking about his already dead. How did he die ? I can’t remember well? We were walking nearby a river hoping if we follow the current it may lead us to people,I heard a splash I turned my back and he was into the cold water, I helped him to get up but his foot got stuck into a puddle pulling his head under the water, he was struggling I tried to pull him towards me but I was too exhausted, as he was drowning I saw his face expression it gave me a

What started out as a visit with his best friend, soon turned into a nightmare for JW Betts. After a disastrous rodeo competition, he decided he needed to take a break from the rigors of rodeo. When he arrived, ready to start relaxing, he was shocked to find a woman,

I had lit a fire on a dark and gloomy night while wandering the wilderness. I hoped that warmth would rejuvenate me and help me continue my journey, but the night sky had become so murky that is seemed impossible to find my way through the dark. Continuing

Bill is four wheeling through the unknown backcountry when he crashes his Bronco. He knows he is lost so he grabs his survival pack out of his Bronco. Bill starts hiking It is late fall and it is getting late in the day. Bill knows he needs shelter water and fire. food can waight Bill remembered that a man can go without food for 30 days and without water for 3. Bill goes to the lowest point where he finds water. He makes a tent from a tarp in his pack than he makes sure it is out of the flood zone. Bill purifies some water with iodine he proceed to make a fire with a bow drill made out of dry wood and his shoe lace. once he has fire he places a red shirt in a tree as a flag. After a week he is rescued by helicopter he is starving and is happy to be saved. This shows the importance of survival

John Walker is driving in a snowy morning to work to publish his new book. Suddenly his car was forced out of the road by a blizzard. The car flipped four times before coming to a stop. The impact against the trees knocked him unconscious. By the time he woke up everything was dark and the temperature was below zero. Blood was coming out of his head from a cut he got during the crash. He struggled to get out of the car, but his legs were stuck between the driver’s seat and the steering wheel. He tried to break the window with his freezing hands as he stumbled to get free. After painfully pulling his legs out; he crawled out of the broken window. Once he got through the window and was exposed to the freezing temperatures, he realized there were

It was a brisk foggy afternoon that was soon to turn to night. John had just waved by to all his friends at the party. It was a thirty minute drive home down some back roads in the country. Five minutes down the road it got dark and foggy, John was trying to get home as fast as he could safely. He was surrounded by open fields and corn fields on all sides. Then before he knew it his truck started to stall for an unexplainable reason. John immediately started to panic but tried to stay calm the best that he could. His truck came to a complete stop and there he was on a back road in the middle of nowhere. The only thing that he could see in front of him was a mailbox with a long drive with cornfields on both sides. John had no other option in the world

It was late March, about to be noon, as we were walking down the path we could feel the grass as soft as a pile of leaves. Without delay, me and my friend, Jit, decided that we would go to the beautiful waterfall that lots of people were talking about. Along the way, we could see the nice sunlight and with some clouds, but we came to a stop and saw there was two ways and they both go to different directions and we didn’t know which one to go to, because they both look the same. As a result, Jit looked at the map and requested “Go left”, so we did , but as we walked, the path got darker, but with some sunlight spot . At last, we walked further in and Jit questioned, “ What is that, he has a green vest and seem like if it could go through a hole with no problem. ” I tried to respond, but the shiny buttons on his vest were as bright as the sun, so that blind me for a couple minutes. Jit with a confused voice, “ He has a beard?”

Allen Jones was a mysterious man who lived in the woods since he was twelve years old. Allen had been hunting since he was eleven, so it was no shock that he lived by killing animals and eating berries. He had a nice peaceful life until one day when one of the townspeople came into the woods. Allen didn’t realize it was a person and thought it was just a bear, so he shot it. He heard the person scream out in pain and ran over to him. The man had been shot in the leg and needed to see a doctor right away. Allen picked the man up and started to carry him out of the woods and to a doctor. As he was carrying him he thought about how scared he was to go back to town. Allen stopped for a second and then thought it through and talked himself into

One day a man named Tyler Dawson was on trip to Chicago for vacation. He decided that he would go camping it was during the winter he was prepared and had his equipment with him. It was a bright peaceful day and snow was everywhere, it was very quiet and relaxing. He decided to go further into the woods, he traveled to a part of the woods that no one ever ventured too. It was always very dangerous to go further into the woods, but he was prepared any decided to go venture off. As he was venturing it started to get darker and colder. As he was getting flashlight from his bag he heard a cracking noise. He shouted “is anyone there” with no reply.

Hair Standing on End Ken interlaced his hands behind his head and stretched back into the woven hammock. He alone was on the boat in the hot breezes of the Amazon. He dreamed of his fiancé back home. Then his mind switched to the mission trip God led him to do

This young man, residing in the Outback of Australia, decided to run away from home when he was 18 years of age. However, he chose a really bad time to do so: during a record heat wave. Hikers found the boy roughly nine weeks after he was last seen, and was weak and unable to stand as well as pretty confused. After he was brought back to civilization, he revealed that he had survived solely by drinking creek water.