Around The Campfire

Story by Jeremy Broadwater I have had a fascination with scarecrows my entire life. They can be anyone or anything. You can build one with straw, grass, leaves or if you are a murderer you can disguise your victims as scarecrows…. Well, until the smell catches up to them. I think sometimes scarecrows have a mind of their own. For example, have you ever been looking at something in front of you and catch a glimpse of an object out of your peripheral vision? The whole time you could swear it was moving but you come to find out it was only your eyes deceiving you… or at least you hoped it was? This is how it his with me when it comes to scarecrows. This story is about a young man named Ted Mills who is a hardworking and a great student at college. You can say he is a well-respected man. Ted loves to decorate for Halloween, in fact, he won the best-decorated house in his community. I don't know if any of you remember last year the tragedy that occurred about a man whose deco...

     By Jeremy Broadwater Motlow Buzz Contributing Writer             I can still remember as a young child sitting around the campfire listening to my dad and grandfather telling stories . I can still hear the crackling of the fire wood, the smell of it as it burned. My dad and my grandfather were the storytellers. They would often start every gathering by positioning the firewood and igniting a fire symbolizing the power and light to bring truth.   We recently celebrated Halloween and generally, if you are like me, you are enjoying nightly gatherings watching horror movies or listening to scary and eerie stories about ghosts, goblins, vampires, and all things that go bump in the night. I have always enjoyed all things of the unknown, whether it is horrifying or some crazy supernatural occurrence that has left my mind boggled. I remember as a very young child hearing the stories about my family...