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Camp Muddy Stream: The Complete Saga
I wrote the following story about my first time going to sleepaway camp (an absolutely horrible experience) when I was 24. I actually wrote 10 full-length comedy essays like this one back then,…
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Camp Muddy Stream: Part 7/7 (THE END!)
Continued from Camp Muddy Stream, Part 6/7: This formative incident happened while I was standing in line behind two sinewy older girls at the Theater Cabin (of Hurricane Bertha fame). We were waiting…
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Camp Muddy Stream: Part 6/7
Continued from Camp Muddy Stream: Part 5… We managed to weather the hurricane in a Little House on the Prairie kind of way by staying inside that wooden cabin until the storm passed,…
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Camp Muddy Stream: Part 5/7
Continued from Camp Muddy Stream: Part 4… Apparently, my mother had seen some bizarrely misinformed weather report in New York that there was a terrible cold front passing across Maine, which couldn’t have…
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Camp Muddy Stream: Part 4/7
Continued from yesterday’s post, Camp Muddy Stream: Part 3… Looking out at the crowd of campers, she bowed her head and said, “I’m very sorry to have to tell you this, but last…
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Camp Muddy Stream: Part 3/7
Continued from yesterday’s post, Camp Muddy Stream: Part 2… As luck would have it, my best friend, Sarah, and I were assigned to two different tents upon our arrival at Muddy Stream. She…
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Camp Muddy Stream: Part 2/7
Continued from yesterday’s post, Camp Muddy Stream: Part 1… We were moving apartments that summer, and the night before I left for Muddy Stream was the last one I would spend at the…
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Camp Muddy Stream: Part 1/7
I wrote the following story about my first time going to sleepaway camp (an absolutely horrible experience) when I was 24. I actually wrote 10 full-length comedy essays like this one back then,…