Chapter Eight

By Ben Freitag

Shane sat bolt upright, struggling against the sheets soaked with his sweat. He looked frantically around the room, hoping for some sign that the world hadn't fallen apart.

A dream, he thought, it was just a dream.

Wasn't it?

Chapter Seven

By William Baker

The sunny day had passed, and blue as the turquoise night, the evening air flooded both into Kim’s room and Shane’s mind. An uneasy peace. Shane could feel his mother’s words hanging over him in the most peculiar way, a Godsend caress of matronly cares on the skin as she prayed, 

Shane…that day, the day when you had left home and all the sunshine in my world uprooted and followed you, the only thing that mattered was hoping that you were safe.

Chapter Six

By Tanner Konarik


May 25

This is the craziest place that I've ever seen. The whole complex is filled with peppy psychos who claim to know me and all knew my name when I got here earlier today. They keep telling me to act as if I haven't met any of them before but I swear I've seen that girl with the green eyes before. Maybe she went to college or high school back in Boston. But that's not possible... is it? 

Chapter Five

By Katherine Albin

They’ve been watching me?  For a while? Who are they?  Why are they watching me? What help could I be to them?...I still don’t know who they are…

A flood of questions were spinning through his mind as he followed Keah into a meeting room.  His face was flushed and his brain was in a haze.  His confusion only let him focus on the words that Keah had hastily left him with.

Chapter Four

By Josh Freitag

Kim had never considered going back to a camp. She went to one as a child, but the heartache of missing the friends she met caused her to never go back.

Maybe it would be good to return. Everyone always felt like family there. There’s no way Mom would let me though, she’s too scared to let me out of her sight.

Kim threw her towel on the bed and watched it slowly slide to the floor. She picked it up and noticed a photograph that had blown from under the bed when her towel dropped. There she stood in all her plainness with the boy who—at least to her—was the most handsome boy she’d ever met.

Chapter Three

By Steven Lee


Olive Eyes!

Why did Kim always end her dreaming with the vision of the the blond with the olive eyes?  Not a night went by in these last two weeks where she did not have a dream about her.

Chapter Two

    By Betsy Hardi


    How did she already know my name? Shane wondered as he drove away from Brightlee. I didn't sign up for anything.
    As Shane drove up the final length of the dirt road and around a bend, Camp Peace started to appear before his eyes and his questions about Brightlee's clipboard started to vanish. He was taken aback by the downtrodden buildings that surrounded him, but decided to log this disappointment with the rest of his low expectations for the summer.

Chapter One

By Daniel Hofmann

            The dirt road was as uneven as it was long. Even though it was surrounded by the bland colors of the Texas heat – dead grass, sparse trees, and sickly cacti – it was still a remarkable thing. Most days out of the year, this road lay untouched by the world around it. Most days, this dirt road sat completely unnoticed by the too-busy-but-thanks-anyway traffic that buzzed past it.

            But today was not such a day. Today was the beginning of summer.