• Chapter 3 "Left, Left, Left Right Left"

    Ella was asleep, dreaming of something safe and familiar, something she'd been dreaming about a lot lately, when she felt herself start to wake up. Her eyes fluttered open slowly, and into her blurry...

  • Chapter 2 "Scrabble"

    "What in the Ella Fitzgerald does 'antidisestablishmentarianism' even mean?" Carl asked, staring at the dictionary, sitting at the kitchen island in his parents house, where he currently lived. His father,...

  • Chapter 2 "Bunk Mates"

    Ella had to admit...the camp was beautiful, just as Gilly said it would be. When the bus pulled in over the old wooden bridge, cozy and nestled by treetops overhead, she really did start to actually feel...

  • Chapter 1 "Chutes & Ladders"

    "I look as forward to this as I do to my period," Anna said, checking her eyes in the mirror while Jason drove. He shrugged and switched lanes while she reached forward to fiddle with the radio dials....

  • Chapter 1 "Apples & Cheese"

    Ella Fitzroy didn't want to go to camp. She didn't want to spend her summer around her peers, she already spent all school year with them, and she didn't want to have to participate in "team games" and...