In 2013, when Syn McDonald was 40, he received the news that he had brain cancer, and less than ten years to live. He wrote about that experience in 2014. Now, thirteen years. later, Syn revisits that memoir as a long-term survivor of brain cancer, discussing how different life looks from this end of survival and what his expectations are of what's to come.

In 2013, When Syn McDonald was 40, he received the news that he had brain cancer, and less than ten years to live. He wrote about that experience in 2014. Now, thirteen years later, Syn revisits that memoir as a long-term survivor of brain cancer, discussing how different life looks from this end of survival and what his expectations are of what's to come.

When six friends are hiking in the mountains near Portland, it's another typical Saturday. Then impetuous Amy chases a mysterious shape through the trees, starting something that will change their lives forever.The chase ends with a dying scream and a strange discovery. The six of them continue their day: four to a weekly tryst, the others to a weekly game night.Then everything changes.Inexplicable events begin to occur, from physical reactions they can't control to...