Cliff Hanger Example Novels & Stories

I never imagined her idea of forever would be so short. No one came to help, so I dragged myself up the cliffside again and again in desperation. It got darker. The wound from the boulder earlier seemed infected now. The pain blurred my vision. I broke down and called Vanessa over and over, begging her to save me. No one answered. Just when I thought all hope was lost, the call finally connected. "Vanessa, please, I'm begging you to help me..." What came through the line was the sound of heavy breathing.

The ground of the cliff was left with deep claw marks. The cord kept dragging him away from the cliff but his claw put an immediate stop to that. The claws dug deep on the ground, but the weight on the cord dragged him beyond. He was holding on to the cliff with just his metal claw. The sudden halt and tension on the cord made his skin below his armpits tear up. His muscles and tendons in both his arms and shoulders stretched beyond their limits. He was now hanging in the air with just his left arm holding on to the cliff while the rest of his body was hanging beyond the cliff's edge.

Helle responded with humor in his voice. “Daughter, when we experience powerful emotions we have the tendency to make the vicinity we’re in react as a display of what is happening internally. “Did you not see us all hanging on for dear life?” Lydia asked in equal humor as Helle, This was new to Scarlett as she had never seen Lydia in this state not even from the day they first met. Scarlett shook her head at her friend. “Our rage blinds us to whatever, is going on around us. We are solely focused on what ticked us off as you earthlings would say.” Helle offered Lydia “That’s so cool,” Jackson said arms folded across his chest.

The young woman drank a lot, causing the maid dissatisfaction. Gulls cries made Nocté shudder. White-winged birds flew past the window, rushing to the cliff with the mill, where they built their nests. On foggy days, cliff wasn’t visible at all. Closer to the cliff, the sand was taken over by wide stone slabs, lined with black veins of sinkholes, where small crabs and clams caught on seaweed huddled. At high tide, the stones were hidden under the water, and at low tide it was possible to find partially opened shells with pearls.

"You two go over there and see if you can climb up." Two men went to check under the cliff and then came back and reported. "We should be able to get up there using grappling hooks." The bearded man turned around and ordered. "Prepare grappling hooks and go up as fast as you all can." His men immediately took the grappling hooks and threw them toward the top of the cliff. "Ready to go." "Go." the bearded man commanded. His men climbed, following the rope lines. Halfway up the cliff, the rope suddenly snapped, and they fell from the height of dozens of feet and were severely injured.

Cliffhanger: Behind Damian, more shapes moved in the light. Not dead. Not alive. All of them… waiting for me.

The bond was not strong enough. Fear flooded into his body. Deftly, Radcliff grabbed the peg in his mouth and stuck it into the wall with all his might. The peg's tip scratched the surface of the tower wall with a squeak that hurt the ears before it finally managed to hold Radcliff's body downward. His body stopped falling and was hanging from a stake.

The wind instantly, took my breath away as I fully felt my feet leave the cliff and began to tumble downwards, a scream leaving my lips but my hands reaching out forward as though it was going to grasp something to save us. On our descent, my hands grasp something sticking out of one of the rocks and in that second, the will to live was never so strong in my life and throwing myself forward, I grasp whatever it was with both hands and hang onto it for dear life. I instantly, smashed into the rock of the cliff but in that moment, I didn’t care, I had stopped myself from falling.

They had to escape before it collapsed entirely. Cliffhanger: As the walls of the fortress began to cave in, the Gaia clan raced against time to find an exit. The ground shook beneath their feet, and debris fell from above. Just as they spotted a way out, a massive piece of the ceiling began to fall directly towards them, threatening to trap them inside forever.