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An angry raccoon

Is in our cabin! No, wait.

It's just a poster.

(Based on something that actually happened when I was at summer camp years ago)

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😂Sounds like a wild time!

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What didn’t happen at camp? Lord of the Flies in real time.

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Haha!

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Here’s to the season

Of clear skies, night swims, fireflies

And dismembered friends

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May the dismembered be remembered, in our thoughts😏

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…and barbecues

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This is my fave!

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That is high praise indeed. My many thanks

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Carefree counselors

Naked, hot bodies in bunks

Always first to die

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Oh yeah😏 They really should see it coming at this point, lol.

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Yep!

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Yeah. About summer camp.

🎶naked! moonlit; swim

laughing, gasping; breathless heat

wet! skin; tangled, limbs

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campfire; whispers, hot

shadows dance; forbidden; touch

stars! hide; blushing, eyes

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sweaty! midnight; thrill

bodies; press in, tangled bunk

lust! sings; summer's, song 🎶

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Love the percussive (? Just trying not to say thrusting😂) syntax🖤

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on the floor laughing 🤣

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Ooohh, I love it!! ❤️‍🔥

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Big guy, no one's playin' hockey at two a.m. -

Bladeflash, dying eyes lifted to the moon.

She's not the final girl, it would seem.

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Can’t have all the survivors he leaves behind identifying him😂

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Weary from the day

My new friends roast s'mores; before

Retreating to bunks.

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Now I want S’mores 🤤

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Deep in the dark woods,

They gathered for Summer fun.

Not all would come back... 😎

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Surviving is a rite of passage🖤

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And also character-building! 😎

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Unfortunately, they did come back and spent the next year trying to kill me for a summer camp atrocities. Some people just can’t take a joke.

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They came back prepared. And tooled up. Haha! 😎

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I anticipated the revenge factor and united all the “nerd girls.” Always be very afraid of the quiet, meek looking ones …

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Yes, it's always the quiet ones you have to watch! Haha... 😎

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Here’s Johnny!

Eyes and smiles peer around corners.

Sees run amuck dirty sneakers flies behind.

Toes kicked down doors. A laxative candy given to kids for a treat.

Sent the kids packing into woods. Johnny thought he was good , got a laugh.

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Not going to lie, I’m not familiar with the reference, but also… that’s pretty messed up😅

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Shining reference. Horror movie. Jack Nickerson “Here’s Johnny”. Tormented child seeks revenge on the campers. Chocolate laxative passed out as candy .

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Laxative. Forgot about that.

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On the positive side, it's also the setting of one of my favorite animated TV shows, "Camp Laslo". (Where nothing is creepy unless that's how you feel about slapstick...).

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Ha! Never seen it. I’ll have to look into it.

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It was a Cartoon Network show, so it would probably be on the Warner streamer.

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Well, on that note, here's a haiku about summer camp or summer....

In the noon day sun

I %^@*#$ never have fun

Unless game is won

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You’re one up on me. I don’t go out in the sun for anything. At work we have fooseball tables and have some pretty intense games, but that’s the closest I get to sports😂

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I am a full on sun worshipper! I love that big guy!

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Oh no, not me. That guy fries me every time I see him. I keep 100 spf sunscreen in my bag or I’m cooked😂

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Yeah, I use screen a lot too. I hear conflicting stuff, but it works.

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Okay, here goes. True story. I've worked at many tennis clubs in my life, giving lessons, including many a summer camp.

About ten years ago, a 7-year-old on one of the last days of the camp was being a royal pain in the arse. Among other things, he kept on coming up to me and saying: "I hope you die. I hope you die." I have no idea why. He was a great kid, never had any problems with him, even that day. Everyone at this club loved the kid.

It's 100-degrees. I got 12 kids on my court. It's like herding unathletic cats. Maybe the 7-year-old said "I hope you die" to me a dozen times over an the course of an hour. It took all my strength not to say anything back. I've had old ladies try to hit me with balls on purpose. I've had parents lie about me to the head pro, saying that I'm too harsh on their kid, etc. I'm pretty tough out there. I've heard it all. Whatever.

But that day was truly an "on the brink" day. I never said a word to the 7-year-old though. Gritted my teeth. Did everything I could not to wish anything bad on the little bastard too. I'm surrounded by all these ungrateful little brats. But I carried on. And the camp ended.

Two months later....the 7-year dropped dead in his bedroom from a brain blood clot.

Several months after that, I had a dream. Me and the kid alone on a tennis court at the tennis club. I look at him and say:

"Hey, I'm sorry."

The Kid: "I forgive you."

Then I woke up.

WTF???

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Omg! That’s… horrible. I wonder if his behavior was because of the clot or whatever caused the clot… wow.

I like how your subconscious both blamed and forgave you all in one dream, very efficient dreaming.

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I know, right? Yeah, maybe he was short-circuiting. I have amazing dreams. Unreal. I could tell stories for hours.

Oh, and check this out: 15 years before the kid's demise, I was working as a reporter. Long story short: editor assigned me and another young guy this really difficult, annoying story that involved talking to a bunch of shady big investor types. You know, guys who invest beaucoup bucks secretly into business stuff. Who knows where they get their money type stuff, etc.?

The kid's father was one of the biggest sources for the story. I'm in some sort of anime world...

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I have wild dreams too! I turn a lot of them into stories, but I also have journals full of just whacked out insane nonsense😂

You should definitely finish the anime reporter story/dream, sounds like it could get interesting…

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Dreams are reality we just don’t know it.

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Fun in the bright sun

Til the sweat is done

Blistering heat kills someone

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Oof there’s a silent killer🥵

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Prompt SUMMER CAMP

Lifetime member of Girl Scouts. Camp two weeks every summer. Do I ever have stories …

Wrote a lot of Haiku at camp. 🏕️

bug! jazz in: moonlight

singing! tadpole; lullabies

stars hum back, softly

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s'mores. tango: wild

fireflies; dance with marshmallows

night whispers, secrets

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canoe! kisses, lake

ripples tickle; pine tree toes

crickets! compose, symph

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cabin: snore, chorus

mosquitoes buzz in; b flat

sweaty; dreams of, home

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sunburnt; giggles, splash

water! balloon sky explodes

rainbow, war paint; glows

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tie-dye; wars at, noon

undercover! squirrels, spy

peace treaty; of sticks

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squirrel's; midnight, feast

raiding the! counselor's stash

moonlight, bandit; strikes

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ghost! stories breathe, fog

misty; campfire romances

sparks! in lover's, eyes

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treehouse; parliament

owls! hoot laws of; leaf and twig

squirrels, impeach; crows

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sunrise! whispers, loud

dew-kissed! grass tells; spider tales

morning, yawns in: pink

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whispers! in the dark

campfire glow; bodies close

shadows; lips on, lips

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midnight! skinny dip

moonlit; water, warm embraces

ripples; secrets, shared

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stolen; kisses, wild

tent flap; rustles, giggles hush

stars! wink; naughty, skies

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Sounds like a wild time! I only had church camp every summer… not especially exciting😂

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I do believe SUMMER CAMP is a winner. 🏆

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Had no idea people were this in to summer camp😂🤩

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