October 11th excerpt:
Just an inch or two later, Jacob had to pause as his hands cramped up from clinging so tightly to the string. His knuckles were white from the strain, and he stared at them ruefully. After a second’s break, he tried descending just a little more, hand over hand. When trying to get his grip on the next section of string, he couldn’t hold tightly enough before he slid, no more than a half inch.
It was enough for the friction burn to sting, and Jacob grimaced. “Fuckdammit!”
Brothers Apart 