Holes

by Meadowridge99

A wrongfully convicted teenager from a cursed family is sent to a brutal desert detention camp, where he is faced with the fake-nice Mr. Pendanski, the ornery Mrs. Ma'am, and the cruel Warden, who make him and the other campers dig a hole every day in the hot sun.

1. Chapter 1

There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. There was once a very large lake there, one of the largest lakes in Texas. However, that was over a hundred years ago. Now it is just a dry, flat wasteland.

There was once a town of Green Lake as well. It dried up with the lake, and so did the people who lived there.

During the summer, the daytime temperature hovers at almost a hundred degrees in the shade—if you can even find any shade. There isn't much shade in a big dry lake.

The only trees are two old oaks on the eastern edge of the "lake". A hammock lies between those two trees, and a log cabin stands behind that.

The campers are not allowed to lie in the hammock. It belongs to the Warden. The Warden owns the shade.

Out on the lake, scorpions and rattlesnakes find shade under rocks and in the holes dug by the campers.