{"id":3901,"date":"2012-07-08T20:25:51","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T01:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/?page_id=3901"},"modified":"2012-07-08T20:25:51","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T01:25:51","slug":"campfire-stories","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/?page_id=3901","title":{"rendered":"Campfire Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the Confabulator Cafe, all our writers decided to do a little camping this week. As they sit around the fire, roasting hot dogs, making s\u2019mores, and kicking back with an adult beverage or two, they\u2019re going to share some stories. Specifically, campfire stories.<\/p>\n<p>A campfire story is a spooky story told around a campfire. It could be a ghost story, a story of being lost in the woods, or even an urban legend (one of those stories that begins with \u201cthis happened to a friend of a friend of mine\u2026\u201d). The campfire is one of the most primal settings for storytelling, and the campfire story reflects our fears about the world. Often there\u2019s a turn at the end of the story which leaves the listener wondering if being out in the middle of nowhere is really a good idea.<\/p>\n<p>So pull up a log and grab a stick for roasting. The fire is warm and it might help keep away the things that live out there in the shadows.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Whose Woods These Are (Flash Fiction)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/2012\/06\/whose-woods-these-are\/\">&#8220;Whose Woods These Are&#8221;<\/a> by Jack Campbell, Jr.<br \/>\n<a title=\"Shadow Puppet (Flash Fiction)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/2012\/06\/shadow-puppet-flash-fiction\/\">&#8220;Shadow Puppet&#8221;<\/a> by Larry Jenkins<br \/>\n<a title=\"The Devil\u2019s Hole (Flash Fiction)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/2012\/06\/the-devils-hole-flash-fiction\/\">&#8220;The Devil\u2019s Hole&#8221;<\/a> by Kevin Wohler<br \/>\n<a title=\"The Fools on the Hill (Flash Fiction)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/2012\/06\/the-fool-hill\/\">&#8220;The Fools on the Hill&#8221;<\/a> by Sara Lundberg<br \/>\n<a title=\"Bobo\u2019s Haunted Circus (Flash Fiction)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/2012\/06\/bobos-haunted-circus\/\">&#8220;Bobo\u2019s Haunted Circus&#8221;<\/a> by R.L. Naquin<br \/>\n<a title=\"Angry Levi (Flash Fiction)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/2012\/06\/angry-levi\/\">&#8220;Angry Levi&#8221;<\/a> by Ted Boone<br \/>\n<a title=\"Netstrider (Flash Fiction)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/2012\/06\/netstrider\/\">&#8220;Netstrider&#8221;<\/a> by Angela Kordahl<br \/>\n<a title=\"The Death Ranger (Flash Fiction)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/2012\/06\/the-death-ranger\/\">&#8220;The Death Ranger&#8221;<\/a> by Jason Arnett<br \/>\n<a title=\"Two Sides to Each Door (Flash Fiction)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/2012\/06\/two-sides-each-door\/\">&#8220;Two Sides to Each Door&#8221;<\/a> by Ashley Poland<br \/>\n<a title=\"A Ghost Story for Pat (Flash Fiction)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/2012\/06\/a-ghost-story-pat\/\">&#8220;A Ghost Story for Pat&#8221;<\/a> by Aspen Junge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the Confabulator Cafe, all our writers decided to do a little camping this week. As they sit around the fire, roasting hot dogs, making s\u2019mores, and kicking back with an adult beverage or two, they\u2019re going to share some stories. Specifically, campfire stories. A campfire story is a spooky story told around a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":4513,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3901","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3901\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}