[11] written by Zooey
As you clamber quickly out of the water, flailing your arms and
legs and cursing the day mom fell in love with your swimming instructor
and daddy pulled you out of classes at the Y, your foot catches in a
sinkhole underwater, and everything goes black. When you come to in
a coughing fit some time later, spewing dark water around you, nothing
looks familiar, and the friends you abandoned are nowhere to be found.
Once you rise unsteadily to your feet, though, you notice that one thing
at least is still with you--the clammy hand and detached forearm of the
corpse! You notice that the hand has six fingers, which probably
accounts for the firm grip that it has.
* If you want to take a closer look at your new treasure, go to [18].
* If you couldn't sooner be rid of the thing, throw it into the bushes
and run towards what you think may be upstream, go to [19].