Stories tagged “camp”
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The Silence is Deafening
I starred off into the distance, refusing to meet my mother’s gaze. She had some strange look in her eyes. She wasn’t upset, or mad, she was disappointed. Disappointed in me. I was very shy, while you could call my own mother a social butte...
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The Camp
10 years ago, Bill and Jackie were taking their son, Atticus, to his first day of the 1st grade when the outbreak happened. Since the worst of the outbreak happened in military towns the Colby’s home town was not hit as hard, but never-the-less it wa...
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Forever and Always
Juliana’s yellow stilettos hit the narrow wooden path that connects two ends of a platform. Juliana hasn’t always been the fashion diva, which is a surprise that today she decides to wear her lovely yellow tiered dress, to her old summer ca...
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My Inner Indian
Before there was such a thing as political correctness, there was YMCA summer camp. Once a year, between the ending and beginning of school, I and 100 of my city’s rowdiest ragamuffins were bussed out to the South Carolina pine woods and divided ...
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Go-Kart Racing at Pennywinkle Camp!
It was Pennywinkle Camp Racing Duo day! I had waited all summer for this, and I wasn’t going to let my partner, Clyve, mess it up this year. Soon I was side by side with Clyve in the Go-Kart; I at the wheel, he in the passenger seat. The referee ...
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On the Trail, Day 26
Day 26: As we raised the flag, a low rumble was heard in the distance. My first thought was that Colin and the boys were returning from the scout. Sure enough, a few minutes later the vehicles began coming up over the hill to the South. It would be a l...
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Fraction
He’d woken me up and gotten me to come out of the camp cabin by throwing a rock at the window. I almost fell out of bed, it scared me so much. I was always on edge. We’d climbed up the grassy hill to the tallest point; you could see the ent...
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The Horizon, Hens, and a Fool
The horizon taunted me, far enough to be uncertain, close enough to be dangerous. Back and forth my eyes swept looking for anything. Birds would rustle if they came through the trees. Dust would pillow into the evening sky if they came by road. Another...
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Northern Skies
The leaves were changing colour. Noah believed he was somewhere in the north continental United States, maybe Wisconsin. It would not be a good thing to have to deal with winter here. He resolved to drive south as soon he could. But first, the river. T...
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The Blue Racer
In the dawn hours of “Lizard Day” at YMCA summer camp, I woke up so psyched I could barely lie still in my bunk. It was three days until my birthday – I would turn 13 on the 4th of July. Lizard Day was a camp tradition. We kids spent ...
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Bonfire Burning Brightly
The stack of wood was impressive. Junior Counselors, Frog, Kenny and Josh took 6 hours to build it. Rising more than fifteen feet into the air, thin poles, stacked teepee style completely surrounded heavy logs five feet high. “How you gonna light...
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In the Distance
“They are coming…” That was all that the message had said before the sounds of radio static and loud interference ended the transmission with such abruptness that he wasn’t sure if they were really gone, but they were…gone. The thought of...
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Twenty-twelve;part one.
“I wish the whole twenty-twelve, end-of-the-world thing would happen already. I can’t wait ’til December.” Charlie said, putting more wood in the campfire. He leaned back as sparks jumped up at him. “What? Why would you ev...
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Twenty-twelve;part two.
He looked up at the stars, apparently in deep thought. Then he smiled and put his arm around me. “For a girl, you’re pretty alright.” I tried to fight back my smile, “Oh, wow, thanks. For a jerk,” I faked punched him,&quo...