You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight: Chapters 10–12

by Kalynn Bayron
At an upstate New York terror-simulation experience based on events from the slasher film The Curse of Camp Mirror Lake, seventeen-year-old Charity is supposed to be the final girl who survives.

Here are links to our lists for the novel: Chapters 1–3, Chapters 4–9, Chapters 10–12, Chapter 13–Epilogue
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  1. blustery
    blowing in violent and abrupt bursts
    A gust of wind blows through the pine trees, making their boughs rock and sway in the fading afternoon light. The front door of the boathouse bounces open as a blustery gale engulfs the structure.
  2. gale
    a strong wind moving 34–40 knots
    A gust of wind blows through the pine trees, making their boughs rock and sway in the fading afternoon light. The front door of the boathouse bounces open as a blustery gale engulfs the structure.
  3. adamant
    impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, or reason
    “No,” I say adamantly.
  4. garble
    distort or make false by mutilation or addition
    Static garbles the line, and Tasha’s voice breaks through in strangled yelps.
  5. vise
    something likened to a tool that clamps or holds tightly
    A fear unlike anything I’ve ever felt in my entire three years of working at Camp Mirror Lake, or my lifetime of horror-movie watching, grips my chest like a vise, squeezing it until I can barely breathe.
  6. waver
    move in a rising and falling pattern
    Bezi takes a deep, wavering breath as she looks up at the sky.
  7. stoke
    increase or intensify an emotion or response
    The feeling of being watched from the deepening shadows stokes a sense of panic in me.
  8. foliage
    the collective amount of leaves of one or more plants
    The paved road is crumbling, and vining foliage runs along the cracks.
  9. affix
    attach to
    He’s got his light on and pointed at a splintered wooden post with the numbers 5980 scrawled on the side in reflective white paint. It looks like a mailbox was affixed to the top at some point, but it’s nowhere to be seen.
  10. dilapidated
    in a state of decay, ruin, or deterioration
    There are gaps in the siding and the roof is partially covered with a big blue tarp held in place by bungee cords and broken cinder blocks. The screens are caked with dirt, and from the sound of it, there is a colony of cats living under the dilapidated front porch.
  11. placate
    cause to be more favorably inclined
    I hate placating her this way, but it feels like it’s my only hope of getting any information out of her. “Please. We could really use your help.”
  12. shroud
    burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped
    Her ragged salt-and-pepper hair is hanging around her face like a shroud, but her eyes, black as coal, stand out.
  13. abomination
    an action that arouses disgust or abhorrence
    “That camp is an abomination. Distasteful if you ask me.”
  14. malice
    the quality of threatening evil
    Ms. Keane smiles, but there is nothing but malice behind her eyes.
  15. incapacitate
    injure permanently
    The shade is dusty and the bulb flickers on and off, but the base looks solid, like it’s made of brass or something. If I can get close enough to Ms. Keane, I might be able to knock her out or at least incapacitate her with it.
  16. calamitous
    having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences
    From the rear of the house, there’s a calamitous crash.
  17. nape
    the back side of the neck
    I nearly stop breathing as a sudden chill runs up my back and settles in the nape of my neck.
  18. utterly
    completely and without qualification
    The light from the kitchen illuminates the part of her body that had been in shadow, and I’m so utterly horrified by her horrendous injuries that I have to stifle the urge to vomit.
  19. erratic
    having no fixed course
    Her chest rises and falls in an erratic pattern, and a halting rasp gurgles from her throat.
  20. waft
    be driven or carried along, as by the air
    The smell of blood and dirt wafts off her and turns my stomach over.
  21. genuinely
    in accordance with truth or fact or reality
    For the first time in the last few days, it seems like he’s genuinely concerned about somebody other than himself.
  22. lapse
    pass into a specified state or condition
    She lapses into unconsciousness and I sit back, my throat tight, my mind racing.
  23. conjure
    summon into action or bring into existence
    I tell myself it’s a deer, a fox, something that belongs here and not the images my mind has conjured of some unnaturally large birdlike creature.
  24. facade
    the front of a building
    A tangle of twisted thorny vines snakes its way up the facade of the building.
  25. threshold
    the entrance for passing through a room or building
    At the rear of the building, there is another entrance, a doorway whose actual door has long since disappeared.
    Stepping over the threshold, the scent of rot fills my nose.
  26. foyer
    a large entrance or reception room or area
    The long center hall opens into an expansive foyer.
  27. pompous
    puffed up with vanity
    A broken chandelier hangs from a rusted chain, and portraits of various pompous-looking men in strange black robes hang on the walls.
  28. plaque
    a tablet that commemorates a person or achievement
    Bezi runs her fingers across a dusty silver plaque set into the bottom of the framed photograph.
  29. permeate
    spread or diffuse through
    As I slowly pull it open, a faint orange light permeates the dark somewhere below.
  30. cavernous
    being or suggesting a large dark enclosed space
    Peering around the corner, I expect to find myself looking into another room, but instead there is a large rough-cut void, a cavernous opening that looks like it was carved out of the bedrock.
  31. incense
    a substance that produces a fragrant odor when burned
    A strong odor of burned wood and something sweet, like incense, wafts into my face.
  32. ether
    a medium that was once thought to fill all space
    Suddenly, a figure steps into view, unfolding out of the shadows like a ghost materializing from the ether.
  33. mottled
    having spots or patches of color
    Its mottled white and brown feathers are luminescent in the low light.
  34. effigy
    a representation of a person
    Its eyes are like the ones in the carved effigy behind the crescent-shaped wooden platform in the grove—black and glinting.
  35. ravenous
    devouring or craving food in great quantities
    We will feed the ravenous land.
  36. ominous
    threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
    There is suddenly a terrible ache in the pit of my stomach, an ominous feeling that takes my breath away—a crushing and all-consuming dread.
  37. eviscerate
    remove the entrails of
    Images of Porter’s eviscerated corpse flood my mind, and a wave of nausea sweeps over me.
  38. brandish
    move or swing back and forth
    Kyle grips the handle of his butcher knife and Bezi brandishes a broom.
  39. sentiment
    a personal belief or judgment
    The sentiment that was shared by the Owl Society and by Ms. Keane was that this land was hungry, ravenous, and I can hear the lake waters lapping against the shore like a monster wetting its lips.
  40. emanate
    proceed or issue forth, as from a source
    Bezi’s car is sitting in the cone of light emanating from the floodlight.
Created on Wed Feb 07 08:57:12 EST 2024 (updated Wed Feb 07 16:40:31 EST 2024)

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