The Rainforest Experiment
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Last published Wed, Jan 31, 2018
Qualified for the final round of the open novella contest hosted by Wattpad!!!
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It will be fun she said. You'll learn a lot she said. Well, she was wrong. Jessica, a University of Minnesota college student, convinced herself and her friend to go on this tropical rainforest hiking trip and now it's up to her to get them home safely. A few weeks into the trip and already there has been a death and other casualties in her group. And to add to their problems, now Jessica's best friend has disappeared without any sign of why. Slowly, Jessica starts to gather haunting clues as to what is really going on in this rainforest. While trying to survive Jessica must solve the mystery behind her suspicious trip leader and figure out how to get her and her group safely back to civilization.
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