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Hi listeners, I'm Ashley Flowers and I have a story I want to tell you.

Three stories, told around a campfire and sure to give you full body chills.

So, gather around and listen close.

Deep in the forest on a moonlit night, four friends were gathered around fire.

Caroless Jake was passing time throwing rocks into the trees.

While Matt, a short young man with a natural scowl, managed the flames with a stick.

Olivia, or Olive, was curled up in a blanket with a hoodie pulled over her head

while wearily watching the sputtering blaze.

Dimit Maya was there too, pulling at one of her braids when a distant howl swept over the trees.

What was that? Maya stuttered.

Jake said, slinging another stone.

They won't come near fire.

Nervously, Maya sank into her seat just as Matt was finishing.

Ah, alright, the fire should be good.

I'm bored. Someone should tell a campfire story.

I could tell the one about the old guy who ate his neighbor.

Oh, no, please. That one made me sick when I heard it on the news.

Oh, I can start. This is a good one too, because this one's real.

And I know it's real because it happened to my sister.

Do you all remember the mall that closed down like 10, 15 years ago?

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