The earth-moving machines had long sputtered out and all the workers were eating or sleeping so I got bored and decided to run off to explore the woods behind our construction site. Tall pines and old oak trees covered the floor in dry needles and acorns and when the crunching stopped underneath my shoeless feet, replacing itself with sticky sucking muck, I looked up and saw I’d come upon a section of really tall grass that went back farther than I could see. I noticed the cattails a little too late and that’s when the alligator darted out of the pond and ate me.