Cameron Vanderwerf

Cameron Vanderwerf holds an MFA in creative writing from Hollins University. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Worcester Review, Every Day Fiction, Page and Spine, Literally Stories, Write Volumes, Pilcrow and Dagger, and Fiction on the Web.

The Scoutmaster’s Ultimatum

Mom and Dad brought me to Camp Bramble because they said I was too sad. They said I could come home when I stopped being sad. That was when I knew that I might never see them or home again.
I was eleven years old and couldn’t remember not being sad. Although I couldn’t have given you an explanation as to why. Maybe I just wasn’t satisfied with any answers that people had given me over the last decade.

Issue 67, November 2022

Cameron Vanderwerf

Cameron Vanderwerf holds an MFA in creative writing from Hollins University. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Worcester Review, Every Day Fiction, Page and Spine, Literally Stories, Write Volumes, Pilcrow and Dagger, and Fiction on the Web.

The Scoutmaster’s Ultimatum

Mom and Dad brought me to Camp Bramble because they said I was too sad. They said I could come home when I stopped being sad. That was when I knew that I might never see them or home again.
I was eleven years old and couldn’t remember not being sad. Although I couldn’t have given you an explanation as to why. Maybe I just wasn’t satisfied with any answers that people had given me over the last decade.

Issue 67, November 2022

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