"Climbers" is an online novel by Chip Haynes that we serialized last year. This is the online table of contents for the novel, just click on the link to go to that chapter, and come back here when you're done to go to the next.

This concludes the reprinted serialized fiction from 2010. From here on out to the end of the year, it's all new and original.

CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT- Welcome back.

Perhaps before I continue, you should go back and re-read that very first chapter. Yes, the one where Ray Meadows fell asleep in a tree. I can wait. Matter of fact, I think I'll go fix a cup of tea while you do that. By the time you're done, the tea will be gone and we can both continue. That first chapter will now bring you right back to where we are in the story. I'll pick it up from there when you're ready.

You're back? Great. Let's get on with it then.

CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE- Running for cover.