Inside the Shattered Sisterhood of Camp Mystic

During the difficult months after the Guadalupe flood, Liberty Lindley watched in amazement as her daughter, Evie, began her slow return to the water. On July 4, Evie had spent four hours, freezing and terrified, dog-paddling between a floating mattress and the edge of a bunk bed inside Wiggle Inn, a cabin at Camp Mystic in which fifteen girls and two counselors were trapped by the churning waters. She’d watched as large spiders, also seeking refuge from the flood, scurried up the walls.  Later that month, a therapist had placed her in front of a sandbox with plastic figurines and instructed her to make whatever she wanted. Evie built an island with a giant wall protecting it from the ocean. In the middle of the island,…

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