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STORY STARTER
Sitting around a camp fire, your characters take it in turns to tell stories...
You could elaborate on one story, or write multiple short campfire stories from different characters in the scene.
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“So what are we for? I broke the silence of the atmosphere. The circle of people stared at me as I was the first speak.
“We’re supposed to tell stories of our experiences, or just some horror stories” the host of this camp said, “but it seems like no one here can think of horror stories or had cool experiences”
“I’ll tell my experience of hiking on Mt. Ebott…if anybody want to hear it” a nerd ut...
The third day passed by uneventfully; well mostly anyway until noon when we heard the sound of Brian’s old Jeep pulling into Shane’s driveway with AC/DC blaring from the car speakers.
The boys all had things they had to do before they could join us. Phil had a church function that his mother and stepfather made him help with, Jeff had to attend a choir concert of his little sister Rosie who had a ...
‘My mother used to tell me a story,’ Masahiko grinned, ‘about a haunted house.’
His grin grew wider as the group shuffled closer around the fire.
‘Go on,’ Nigella prompted, hands splayed towards the embers for warmth.
‘The story goes like this,’ Masahiko tucked his legs underneath him, ‘there was once a happily married couple-’
‘Pass,’ Nahara stood up from her log, arms stretched above her hea...
The boys sit around the bonfire in the whispering woods, watching the blaze with one empty chair—Raymond’s chair.
“I’m back and I have my story,” he said, holding his piece of fire wood. His forehead had a wound that bled.
Taking a place in his seat: “I walked out into the woods and bushes and threw my piece of firewood as far as I could into some brush. ‘Stories are dumb and so is this ritual,...
A
Campfire
No
Not a place in the
Briar.
Two
Young
Skulls
Sit near the
Fire.
The
Skulls
Talk
To
Each other
About
The
Things they
Admire
I
Like
The
Giant
One said
I’m
Going
Haywire!
The
Giant
Would find
Came fires
All
Over
The
World.
Nothing could
Stop
It
Not even
Gunfire
The
Giant
Would
Find these
Campfires.
And
The
First
Skull
Said the
Giant
Was
Right
Near
Bye
The
Fire.
A
Whistling ...
It was fox’s idea to come here not mine, It was Maryanne’s idea to light the campfire and Tam’s idea to start the stories it was my idea to go home, but no one EVER listens to my ideas. We sit around the cluster of logs, fox using his expertly expert skills to start the fire (which is never going to happen) Tam and Maryanne are eyeing each other up as if they are both about to pounce on the other ...
Hayley, and Jason dates for ten years and have been together since they graduated from New York City University and became Journalists. They are going to be camping in the woods with their best friends Samantha and Mark for the weekend, they have been friends with them for years and they enjoy spending quality time with them whenever they have the chance to do so.
They are all sitting around th...
“They say that every so often campers will hear him outside their tents at night, still looking for his missing head!” Johnny exclaimed, holding the flashlight under his chin to cast eerie shadows across his face.
Five other boys sat around the fire. Tim and Dave snickered, having heard this story before. Darrel wasn’t paying attention. Alex finished toasting a marshmallow over the fire, and Kyle...
”Okay. I’ll start,” said Pam. It was one blazing hot day, and I couldn’t find my dog. I kept yelling his name from the window, but I heard nothing, so I went out to look for him; it was around 2:30 in the afternoon, and I worked a double at work the night before, so I was exhausted, my feet got so swollen, and my eyes are so puffy that I couldn't see out of them. Not panicking, I put warm water ov...
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