The Snake Eater’s Gold

Jeff Suwak
11 min readApr 15, 2018
Photo by Willian West on Unsplash

(An audio version of this was made by Manor House. They also had first publication rights.)

On the group’s third day in the Sonoran Desert, Danny found himself riding a mangy horse through a tangled stretch of crucifixion thorn, saguaro, and palo verde, wondering what the hell he had gotten himself into.

No trails ran through that that parched wilderness. The only markers that existed to guide…

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