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    Fun Campfire Stories
    Fun Campfire Stories
    Fun Campfire Stories
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    Fun Campfire Stories

    By John Bradshaw

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    A collection of 21 Campfire style stories. A compliment book to Fun Campfire Ghost Stories. Humor is incorporated into the stories making the story telling session an enjoyable and memorable event. Even the youngest will beg for more and sleep soundly at night. As important on any camping trip as a sleeping bag, marshmallows and flashlight.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn Bradshaw
    Release dateSep 15, 2010
    ISBN9781452386973
    Fun Campfire Stories
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    John Bradshaw

    Ex US Army Officer, Ex State of South Carolina SITCON team member, 2nd degree Black Belt, private pilot, married, 3 sons, business owner.

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      Book preview

      Fun Campfire Stories - John Bradshaw

      Fun Campfire Stories

      John Bradshaw

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright John Bradshaw

      Discover other titles by John Bradshaw at Smashwords.com

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      This book is available in print at most on line retailers

      Cover design by John Bradshaw

      Cover photograph by Victor Soares – Fotolia.com

      All rights reserved.

      John Bradshaw’s website; www.eaglewingsbradshaw.com

      *****

      Contents

      Chapter 1 - Before we get started

      Chapter 2 - Eyes

      Chapter 3 - Stars

      Chapter 4 - The skeleton

      Chapter 5 - A letter from camp29

      Chapter 6 - BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

      Chapter 7 - Poor Rufus II

      Chapter 8 - The old house

      Chapter 9 - BC

      Chapter 10 - Deathbed

      Chapter 11 - The flower lady

      Chapter 12 - The bronze ghost

      Chapter 13 - I’m not who you think I am

      Chapter 14 - Our first night in a tent

      Chapter 15 - Things aren’t always as they seem

      Chapter 16 - Let’s go fishing

      Chapter 17 - The special one

      Chapter 18 - Parkside Road ghost

      Chapter 19 - The grizzly

      Chapter 20 - The hole

      Chapter 21 - Hell’s fury

      Chapter 22 - The last flight

      Chapter 23 - A few parting thoughts

      About the Author

      *****

      Chapter 1 - Before we get started

      Campfire style stories have been enjoyed by generations of listeners. It is an American tradition. Fun Campfire Stories is a collection of 21 short campfire style tales that have a fun ending. Some are original and others are variations of stories that have been told around campfires for years. This book continues the tradition of Fun Campfire Ghost Stories. All the stories are imagination filled, some have suspenseful story lines that combine with humor and end in a non-threatening way. All of them are fun.

      Everybody loves good short stories around the campfire. There’s something mystical about the unknown, something fun about imagining encounters with the supernatural. The words fire the imagination. Try to tailor the story to a setting or location that the audience can relate to. The presentation is more important than the content. Pre-reading the story is a must for the story teller. Recital through memorization is the best. Acting out the story with expressions and jesters along with voice tone changes, make for a memorable event.

      The listener’s mind draws pictures of the people and events in the story. The story does not have to be very detailed to be successful. The listener does not have to know what color shirt the character is wearing or the color of his hair. The story teller paints word pictures in the mind of the listener. If the teller can make the listener see what is happening, then the story is a success.

      This collection continues the spirit of stories that relieve the suspenseful build up of the storyline with a fun ending. Kids might even say that the story was silly or not scary, but ask if they would like another and the response is invariably a hearty Yes.

      Always remember your audience. Some stories maybe too intense for some younger listeners.

      My goal is an entertaining and fun campfire story telling event.

      So enough of this other stuff. Let’s get to the meat and potatoes. Is it dark? Is the fire going? Are you ready? Are you really ready?

      Ok, here we go.

      *****

      Chapter 2 - Eyes

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      Summertime is the best time. Logan was having a fantastic time at camp. This had been the first summer that Logan went to camp with a few of his buddies from school. They were all in the same cabin and had just spent their first day shooting a gun at the rifle range, shooting an arrow with a bow at the archery range, riding horses and swimming in the lake. They looked forward to the next two weeks of exciting activities.

      The camp was beautiful. Set in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, Camp Carlisle had everything. There were numerous cabins that housed about ten campers each and a counselor. The cabins were scattered amongst the pine trees around a central green yard that stretched down to the private fifteen acre lake. Behind the cabins were numerous activity areas, such as a gym where they played dodge ball, an arts and crafts center where they were going to make lanyards and clay pots and a campfire ring for night activities and campfire stories.

      The camp was actually built from an old deserted mining town dating back to the 1860s. The thought of that is cool, Logan said to himself. The first question that comes to mind is; why was the town deserted? Logan’s counselor, Randy, said that he would explain it later. When we went horseback riding, the stable guy told us that the stables used to be a train station and the path through the woods that they rode on was the old train track bed.

      Anyway, Logan and his friends were back in their cabin getting ready for the dinner bell. They had just returned from the washhouse where they got their showers and were looking forward to a filling meal in the camp cafeteria. Logan’s friends were hoping that their evening would include a few ghost stories.

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