This week in my facebook photo group the theme was Cemeteries and Statuary. It didn’t take long for things to get eerie. My friend George posted a photo first up and remarked how the particular scene always spooked him. I dared him to write a piece of flash fiction based on the picture and he did. You can read it by clicking the author’s name: George F. Hoffman.
In two weeks I am going on a semi camping trip. there will be lots of little children and none of them are mine so I would love to scare them with some good old-fashioned campfire stories. I hereby challenge my blogging buddies to come up with some short stories (100-300 words) fit for 6-10 year-old’s around the campfire. Can you do it?
Feel free to use any of the pictures as prompts or not. But link up to this post or leave yours in the comments. And thank you in advance. Hehehe.
I tried to make it look creepy.
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Dawn, you need to activate your re-blog button so this appeal can be spread 😀
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Thanks, I plan on linking it to some other posts this week.
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Great photos. I was just saying to my son that I have never been to the cemetery to take photos. I wonder why?
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IDK because a lot of photographers are drawn to them for sure.
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There is so much one can do to the photos and some great stories to tell as well.
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Well here’s your challenge! 😉
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I know, there is an amazing cemetery on a hill in Napier. I am thinking of heading over there next time I visit my parents.
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Do it, then come back and share your link.
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Great spooky pictures! I’ll see if I can condense the ghost story I wrote into 100-150 words, although I can’t promise anything. Short fiction is not my forte!
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Just trying is a wonderful gesture. Thank you.
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Please see the post on my blog entitled “sleeping?”
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Great photos.
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Thank you.
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the ducks swimming is a gorgeous image! Good luck with your up coming camping trip! Should be fun for all!
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Oh yes, I am excited!
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Have fun on the trip. Don’t get too scary and if you can, post some of the stories. 👍🏼😊
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I’m excited for it! I don’t have any stories yet though. Ypu should write one!
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I started one, but…😫
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There is time..don’t give up. Mull it around.
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For some reason it doesn’t scare me to walk through a cemetery. I know it freaks some people to think of ghosts…but I never even consider them. I hate scary movies though and never watch them…and I’m just not into that kind of stuff.
But I know this is intended to be all in good fun.
Happy Saturday!
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I feel like you do for the most part. If I were to walk though a cemetery it would not be the dead I was fearful of.
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OK. Here it is. Feel free to use it – or not. It was fun.
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http://thestir.cafemom.com/big_kid/173143/5_Spooky_Ghost_Stories_to
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