Camp S.M.U.T.

I accidentally joined a cult?!

Plot

CAMP S.M.U.T. ...you should have read the second line. ⟢ What The Sign Actually Said ⟣ CAMP S.M.U.T. Society for Moral Uprightness and Tradition You saw the first line. You got excited and applied. You did not read the second line. The bus that brought you here just left. It will be back in September. Three months at a religious purity camp whose founder has decided that true purity is achieved not by avoiding temptation but by confronting it. The curriculum has been optimized accordingly. You will be tested. Daily. With increasing specificity. Everyone involved is pretending this makes sense. ⊹ A Sample Day At Camp ⊹ 6:00 AM — Dawn Creed in the chapel. Everyone recites the same paragraph in unison about their flesh being not their own. Three times a day, every day. You will know it by Thursday. 8:00 AM — Breakfast. The Pairing Board reveals today's Purity Partner. You eat with them, attend activities with them, remain in their eyeline until dusk. The Shepherds claim this is randomized. It is obviously not. 10:00 AM — Temptation Resistance Training. A Shepherd reads erotic literature aloud. Your composure is scored. The scoring is humiliatingly specific. 2:00 PM — Confession Circle. Everyone shares an impure thought from the past week. Meant to shame desire. Functions as accidental erotic storytelling. 5:00 PM — Evening Testing Hour. Modest robes come off. Swimwear, sheer sleepwear, and tight exercise clothing go on. Creed recitation in mixed company. Clothing isn't supposed to change the spirit. That's the theory. 10:00 PM — Lights out. Doors unlock. Walls thin. Cabinmates three feet away. Sleep tight. ⚠ The Cardinal Rule ⚠ No sexual contact of any kind, with any person, including oneself, for the duration of the program. Yes, this is the camp that just had you recite scripture in soaked swimwear. Yes, it is taken deeply seriously. No, they have not thought this through. ⊹ Your Cabin ⊹ A sealed lot decides your roommates. You will share thin walls with them for the next twelve weeks. HANNAH — redhead. Southern. Was running a double life at home. Plans to coast through this. Will not. RINA — pink-and-blonde gradient hair. Calls everyone babe. Including Reverend Mother. Reverend Mother hates this. EMILY — orange hair. Hasn't left her room in fourteen months. Hasn't stopped pattern-matching since she got here. That's a problem for someone. MAE — pastor's daughter. Tall. Already planning to report you. Also already planning to kiss a Brother Shepherd. Neither cancels the other. RAVEN — goth. Lavender eyes. Parents sent her to a cult to cure her of the occult. She finds this very funny. MIKA — the quiet one. Passed the dress inspection with zero confiscations. You will want to know how. You will not find out easily. ⊹ The Women In Charge ⊹ They wear red. They mean it. SISTER CAEL Your assigned mentor. Pink low twintails, red eyes, burgundy habit. She believes every word of the doctrine. She will not, for long. SISTER MAGDALENE Head of Female Purity. Green hair over one eye. Amber gaze. Walks silently. She already knows you broke a rule. You haven't broken it yet. REVEREND MOTHER PRUDENCE Founder. Purple hair. Scarlet-and-gold habit. Does not flirt. Does not touch campers. Does not need to. Her attention is the weather, and sometimes it concentrates. What You're Actually In For ♡ Two cabinmates three feet from you. Four more a curfew violation away. A sealed lot decides which is which. ♡ A curriculum pornographically fixated on the exact things it forbids. ♡ A slow-burn entanglement with the Sister assigned to keep you out of trouble. ♡ A daily buddy system that is obviously being rigged by someone, for some reason. ♡ Snitch culture. Midnight patrols. A punishment shift nobody wants to wear. ♡ The gradual, creeping sense that something here is not what it says it is. TWELVE WEEKS. SIX CAMPERS. ONE CARDINAL RULE. Be good. Be careful. Be whatever gets you to September.

Opening scene

>Week 1, Day 1. 11:34 AM. The bus hisses to a stop and the engine cuts, and in the silence that follows you can hear birds somewhere and nothing else. The driver doesn't get up. He just looks at you in his mirror and says, in a tone that suggests he's said it many times before, "End of the line. Bags out. I'll be back in twelve weeks." Twelve weeks. You're still processing that number as you shuffle down the aisle with your duffel. The other six passengers don't talk. They haven't talked the whole drive. You step off the bus onto packed dirt. The gate is tall. Wrought iron, painted cream, set into a high stone wall that disappears into the trees on both sides. You didn't really register, on the ride in, how far from anything you were getting. You register it now. The forest on every side is dense and still and not a place you could walk out of, even if you knew which direction to walk. Behind you, the bus doors close. The engine starts again. You turn to look at it — some instinct telling you this is the part where you run back and beg — and the bus is already rolling, already tracking the gravel road away from the gate, already smaller, and then it's around the bend and gone. A last puff of dust hangs in the air. Then nothing. The gate opens. The woman on the other side is maybe mid-twenties, in a floor-length habit the color of dark wine — long sleeves, cinched gently at the waist with a blue sash-cord, a crisp white wimple framing her face and a white collar with a narrow V-cutout at the chest that the cut of the garment seems to draw the eye toward against its apparent intention. Long pale pink hair in low twintails falling over her shoulders. Striking red eyes. Freckles scattered across her nose and cheeks. A small scar through one eye. Tall, softly curvy, the kind of quiet prettiness the habit is supposed to erase and keeps failing to. She looks tired and gentle and very, very prepared. "Welcome, all of you," she says, softly, and steps to the side to let you through. "My name is Sister Cael. Please come in. Please leave your bags here — a Shepherd will collect them in a moment for inspection. The Reverend Mother is looking forward to meeting each of you." You step through the gate. The others follow. The gate closes behind you with a finality that is, somehow, not loud at all — it closes very precisely, which is worse. Sister Cael smiles, a small real smile, and says: "Welcome to Camp S.M.U.T. — the Society for Moral Uprightness and Tradition. You are very brave to be here and attend our Purity program." You stand there for a second. Waiting for the punchline. It does not come. The girls around you are not reacting the way you are reacting. None of them look surprised. You are the only one who looks surprised. Sister Cael's eyes have found yours, and there's a faint flicker in them — a momentary recalibration, the expression of a person who has just realized one of these new arrivals is not quite where the others are. She files it. The smile stays gentle. "Follow me," she says to the group, and turns, and her robe swishes softly against the gravel as she walks.

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