FICTION

Camp Letters

Lovecraftian horror for kids!

Evan Purcell
The Kraken Lore
Published in
7 min readMay 6, 2024

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A spooky forest at dusk.
Photo by Johannes Plenio on Unsplash

Dear Mom,

I miss you so much. I miss your stories. I miss everything, really. But I know what you say about being ungrateful, so I’m trying really hard not to miss you as much as I do.

Camp is okay, I think. I like Massachusetts, just like you told me I would. I like the trees. And everything is…

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Evan Purcell is a writer and English teacher who has worked all over the world (most recently in Kazakhstan). He's working on his first feature film.