1 Story Ticket: Campfire Stories

By Crystal Carroll

In the woods, a group of friends gathers beneath the tall redwoods. There's a fire going against the chill.

A child runs up to ask for a story with a story ticket in hand. Soon, all the children are turning in their tickets.

Each child gets to decide who is in their story (princess, unicorn, dragon, robot, and so on) and what those characters are named.

This book has been carefully packed with some of those stories.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Crystal Carroll
• Release date: Jan 6, 2018
• ISBN: 9780999611920

Crystal Carroll

Crystal Carroll has been writing for as long as she can remember.Crystal has had a long fascination with mythology and folklore. Starting in fourth grade, when she read every book her local library had on Greek mythology, she has long been fascinated with the rhythm and beauty of religious traditions, mythology and folklore. During her years at the University of California at Santa Cruz, she dug deep into the field of literature with an emphasis on medieval literature with all it’s strange and quirky stories.Crystal balances writing privacy and security documentation during her day job and writing fiction during her off hours. Crystal’s fiction writing focuses on lyrical prose from the point of view of specific characters with an aim of letting the reader know what the world feels like for those characters.

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Introduction

1 Story Ticket: Campfire Stories

By Crystal Carroll

Copyright © 2018 Crystal Carroll

Smashwords edition: 978-0-9996119-2-0, 0-9996119-2-5

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Discover other books by Crystal Carroll at crystal-carroll.com

Riveder le Stelle: San Jose and CA

Smashwords Edition, License Notes

This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

Introduction

Imagine a campfire. Friends are gathered around in the tall redwoods. Tents cluster among the trees.

At some point (okay, because I started it), the kids will ask me to tell a story. Now I’ve learned to put a limit on this sort of thing. They get a story ticket. Their parents get to decide when the ticket can be redeemed.

When children turn in their tickets, they can have their story. They name the characters and who those characters are (kids, unicorns, goddesses, princesses, etc.). I tell a story based on that foundation.

As I tell the story, I draw (very badly) little stick figures to show what’s going on. It also gives me something to take a picture of as I try to remember what I’ve said.

This book offers a few variations of those stories. There is art, if modest in quality. I’ve left the names selected by the children, except where requested characters infringed on copyright.

I hope you enjoy and feel a little bit of the campfire light and the storytelling that goes with it.

Sparkles!!!

Who Is in This Story?

Goddess—Parina

Unicorn—Rainbow Sparkles

Princess—Blue Sparkles

The Story

The goddess Parina didn’t want to wake up and make rainstorms. She was comfy in her bed made of mountains. Her hair was all spread out making rivers while she slept.

Her pet unicorn, Rainbow Sparkles, had been awake for hours. Hours and hours and hours. Prancing and leaping on a rainbow