The giant grabbed the girl and lifted her high into the air. He yanked her up so hard and fast she thought she was going to pass out. Her struggle to get out of the monster’s powerful grip was over. Despite the way the Bible story ended, it appeared the girl was not going to be as lucky as the young shepherd boy.
Ten-year-old Wren Evans enjoyed the feeling of victory. She had come face-to-face with the gargantuan man they called Goliath. She had survived his presence once before, but now her luck had run out.
She writhed in his powerful grip like a snake, trying to break free. It was no use. She was just a fourth-grader, and he was a nine-foot-tall superhuman.
The giant squeezed his fist and slowly pushed the air from Wren’s lungs.
As she hung there, high above the plain, her life began to slip away….