Impending Disaster

by Colin Guest

Three friends had been out enjoying a sightseeing plane trip. They were happy and carefree as they were about to pass over the mountain above their town nestling down in the valley. A gently bubbling creek ran through the centre of it. On each side of its banks were a variety of timber-built summer homes and cabins. It looked and was a peaceful town of around 350 inhabitants. As they woke that morning, no one knew that high above them a terrifying plane crash would result in most of them able to live and enjoy another day.

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First published April 22, 2018

About the author

Colin Guest is a freelance writer whose latest book is Death on the Move, the final in a trilogy of thrillers startng with Desperation Rules the Day,available free of charge via Draft2Digital. His pen name Tigerman, comes from his love of tigers, with his adopting one for the past twelve years.
Apart from his books Colin also writes poetry, with several of his poems in the final four in contests. Colin once took part in a live American radio show and e has taken part in a number of online interviews. His latest was with Writers Interviews, while his strangest was a radio interview with Lisa Burton, a gorgeous robotic interviewer.
As a keen supporter of environmental and wildlife issues, Colin belongs to several organisation related to this. He lives in Istanbul with his wife, Gulden.

Reviews

[Please Pass the Books · Rating 4 out of 5]

Impending Disaster by Colin Guest is a short story that follows Ian, Mark, and Jane on a nice day out that quickly turns calamitous after their pilot loses control, their plane crashes, and they are thrown onto a mountainside. Instantaneously, they are bound into survival mode as they attempt to navigate a descent to the bottom...but, inevitably, the mountain (and the forces of both man and nature) have other ideas. As a series of events create a seemingly endless stream of bad luck, the trio work hard to not just save themselves, but a town at the mountain's basin that could potentially be deluged and the entire population of residents swept away to certain death.

Impending Disaster by Colin Guest was a pleasant companion as I whiled away a couple hours on the beach. As expected, it's a short story that takes a reader right in and continues with non-stop action until the end. It's not always easy for a writer to develop their characters when working within a smaller word count but Guest does a great job of making them feel authentic. Brevity can also cause problems when multiple subplots come into play, but on that front Guest also had the skill to effectively keep pace and timing in line with his narrative. Whether you're spending an afternoon in an armchair or on a picnic blanket, this is a good piece of adventure fiction that is easy to recommend to readers who enjoy quick escapes into worthwhile stories.

Review written for Readers' Favorite.

[Gabriel Benitez · Rating 4 out of 5]

Una historia corta pero emocionante. Un grupo de tres amigos ha sufrido un severo accidente de aviación que los deja heridos en plena montaña, pero pronto se darán cuenta de que ese desastre no es nada frente al que se avecina: se ha formado una laguna en lo alto de la montaña que está a punto de colapsar. Si no llegan a tiempo para avisar al pueblo asentado a las faldas, una enorme ola de agua, rocas y lodo se cobrará las vidas de todos en el lugar.