by Daniel Lowd and Mary E. Lowd
Originally published in Stories of Camp RainFurrest, September 2011
![](https://deepskyanchor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/The-Canoe-Race-300x300.webp)
The last camper had left. The cabins had been swept clean of the dirt from the tramping feet of a hundred teenagers. The dining hall had been swept and scrubbed free from the grease of a summer’s worth of meals. The canoes had been pulled in from the lake and stowed in the boat house for winter. The fire pit had been emptied of ash. The gate on the road leading to Camp Riverwind had been locked.
It was finally time. Continue reading “The Canoe Race”