Falling Off The Cliff Book Novels & Stories

The pounding in my chest was a deafening drumbeat, threatening to overwhelm me. In the depths of my suffering, I couldn't help but cry out silently in my heart, fully aware that I had been cornered with no escape in sight. The irony wasn't lost on me; my frantic attempt to protect my child had led us to this place, where danger seemed to lurk closer than ever. The sheer height of the cliff before me left me trembling with uncertainty. How could a mere human like me survive such a dangerous fall? The depth below yawned wide, an unforgiving opening that promised a harrowing destruction into the unknown.

I pleaded in a shaky voice, my knees suddenly felt weak, so I sat down, not minding that people were passing by and watching me. "Your mom collapsed and when the doctors examined her, they said she was getting worse and she had just a few weeks-" I didn't listen to the rest of what he had to say. I ran down the staircase as my chest tightened. I swallowed the lump in my throat as I kept pushing through the wind, running as fast as my little legs could carry me. Tears kept falling from my eyes but I didn't bother to clean them.

"Oh! Then jump." I sniff the cold air and swallow hard, trying to be brave. Thank you Mom for raising me. Thank you, Jordy and Austin, for your love and support. Thank you, Roberta, you are my best friend and you always help me a lot. "Go to hell!" As I step back, Roberta screams and pushes me to fall off the cliff. "Noooo!" I scream as my body starts to fall quickly. What does Barbara do? I look at the sky, the sunlight. I know I will fall into the cold running water of the river. And no one will find my body ...

Going down, I instantly know I fucked up. I jumped straight off a hidden cliff edge, not seeing the way the land dissolved into a canyon, and I have no way to stop myself. I’m tugged to an abrupt halt that shudders my body and soft cracks half my bones with how hard the jerk is. My cape is tightening around my neck so hard it's like I'm being dangled slowly to my death. Stretched up as it hooks onto something, and I writhe to grab it before it either chokes me via slow strangulation or snaps and lets me keep falling. My legs panic, scrambling in thin air, gasping for breath, and trying to reach something to unhook me before I truly die by hanging with my own clothes.

I’ll never prove Sebastian wrong and my parents will find my body in a shallow grave somewhere, torn to pieces by werebears, and— That’s when I burst through the trees, not paying attention to anything other than my all-consuming fear. The tree line plunges away sharply in front of me, the drop off mere feet from where I am. I don’t even see it coming until it’s too late, and although I try to keep myself from falling, there’s no avoiding it. My feet skid out from underneath me as I stumble to the cliff, and the next thing I know, I’m tumbling over the edge.

Slowly we pulled ourselves up and over the cliff. The top of the cliff had soft beautiful green grass. We hoisted ourselves up and over the edge and crawled on the grass away from the edge . We collapsed on the grass, turning to lay on our back and stared up at the sky. How did things get this so off track? So messed up and Why do all these things just keep happening to us! I breathed deeply as I tried calming my humbled mind.

The sensation of being lifted. Maya’s voice again, breaking. “Please, she has to be okay. Please.” I wanted to tell her I was fine. That she didn’t need to worry. But I couldn’t find my way back to consciousness. Couldn’t claw my way out of the dark. So I stopped trying. Let the darkness have me. And dreamed of rain.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

This is not what I expected. People are gathered at the edge of the cliff and they're all looking down. The shock is starting to wear off and is being replaced by a terrible dread. Olivia fell off the cliff. She's lying at the bottom. I rush toward the edge. I nearly push someone in the process. I hear people behind me, trying to comfort me. I ignore them all. I can't even hear them. She's not on the rocks, so she must have fallen in the ocean. It's the only way.

The break is corrupt! My hands are damn shaking because in just a minute I would probably fall in that damn cliff! I tried again and again the break but it’s totally not functioning! I closed my eyes intently and tried so hard to think. I tried to open the door but it was too late. Before I can open the door my car slowly fell off in the cliff. I shouted in horror and I could only think about is…this time it would really be my end. This is my end. My tears fell and I feel dizzy. My head is throbbing as I felt the gravitational force of falling down from a high cliff.

“Jillian,” I whispered, grabbing his wrist, “don’t go out there alone.” His hand closed gently over mine, gun in the other. “I’m not. You’re with me.” “That’s not what I—” He turned, eyes locking on mine, serious. “Christy, if anything happens, I need you to run. You know the side hallway by the library?” I nodded. “There’s a hidden passage behind the tall bookshelf. Pull the black book with the red spine. It opens a door. Go through, stay quiet, don’t stop.”