Scott W. Clark
Campfire Tales
language
(Archon Books Dec. 21, 2010)
Sitting around the campfire. Marshmellows roasting on a stick. And campfire tales.
This collection hearkens back to the times spent with a flashlight under a sheet draped across chairs--everyone under the age of eight knows that’s a good tent--to earlier times when tales were told around campfires.
Campfire stories are usually tales of blood and bad endings based mostly on urban legends--horror stories-- of course. Some of them are humorous too, but they are first and foremost stories of possibilities. For someone sitting on a sofa in the luxury of one’s own home with the lights on and bright, to be able to see a man running along the ridge of a distant mountain silhouetted as he moves against the twilight sky would be too absurd for words.
But, for some reason--call it what you will--sitting around a campfire away from civilization up in the high country as the sun sets behind massive mountains framed black against the sky, to see a man running along a distant ridge becomes a very real possibility. And, sitting around that same fire, (or huddled under a sheet draped across some chairs with a flashlight) maybe, just maybe, monsters might order pizza and reminisce, mules might talk, frogs might take out loans and chickens just might look for a book review in the swamp.
You never know.
Stories:
One very good pig
A barnyard conspiracy
“On one condition”
The Shaggy Dog
Encounter on a Train
The Gloop Maker
The library patron
The examination
The haunted house
Just a Hike in the Woods
An entrepreneurial frog
A warning: These stories are not pc.
From the author of I Am Legion, The Joining, Tales for a Dark Night, and the Saga of The Pearl.
This collection hearkens back to the times spent with a flashlight under a sheet draped across chairs--everyone under the age of eight knows that’s a good tent--to earlier times when tales were told around campfires.
Campfire stories are usually tales of blood and bad endings based mostly on urban legends--horror stories-- of course. Some of them are humorous too, but they are first and foremost stories of possibilities. For someone sitting on a sofa in the luxury of one’s own home with the lights on and bright, to be able to see a man running along the ridge of a distant mountain silhouetted as he moves against the twilight sky would be too absurd for words.
But, for some reason--call it what you will--sitting around a campfire away from civilization up in the high country as the sun sets behind massive mountains framed black against the sky, to see a man running along a distant ridge becomes a very real possibility. And, sitting around that same fire, (or huddled under a sheet draped across some chairs with a flashlight) maybe, just maybe, monsters might order pizza and reminisce, mules might talk, frogs might take out loans and chickens just might look for a book review in the swamp.
You never know.
Stories:
One very good pig
A barnyard conspiracy
“On one condition”
The Shaggy Dog
Encounter on a Train
The Gloop Maker
The library patron
The examination
The haunted house
Just a Hike in the Woods
An entrepreneurial frog
A warning: These stories are not pc.
From the author of I Am Legion, The Joining, Tales for a Dark Night, and the Saga of The Pearl.
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