For all of them to live, one of them had to die

Gone: "What's it like to be kidnapped and held for ransom, not as a political prisoner but as an economic one? What's it like to live in the Ecuadoran jungle for 141 days? What's it like not to sleep, to be bound in chains, to have your body invaded by living things, to waste away to the point of death? What's it like to have one of your fellow hostages killed when the negotiators fail at negotiation? What's it like? This is what it's like."

Finalist, feature writing, American Society of Magazine Editors' Best American Magazine Writing 2002 (Tom Junod, Esquire magazine)