Camping Stories

WATTPAD ORIGINAL EDITION Finished high school, Emma's forced to spend her summer at a camp. But a striking counsellor, Vivian, changes her plans from escape to together forever. ***** Seventeen-year-old Emma Lane usually lives with her dad, but she's once again being forced to spend the summer with her homophobic mom. This time, however, instead of spending a summer on the beach, her mom drops her off at Camp Mapplewood while she heads off on a cruise with her new husband. Emma hates the camp and tries to escape, but she is caught by a camp counsellor Vivian. She's drawn to Vivian's voice and her charm, while Vivian is fascinated by Emma's instinct to protect others and to feel with her whole heart. The two grow close, but the end of the summer looms. Can they find a way to stay together when they have to return to their normal lives? (Has a sequel: My Pretend Summer.) [[word count: 50,000-100,000 words]]

WATTPAD BOOKS EDITION. You have to step off the trail to find your path . . . When her mother unceremoniously dumps her at Camp Mapplewood for the summer, Emma Lane's hopes of repairing their fractured relationship are gone with the wind. Now she's stuck in the wilderness facing her worst fears. Trees? Terrifying. Spiders? Even worse. And don't even get Emma started on how she feels about camp activities. But Emma's got a plan, and she will do anything in her power to get kicked out of camp, from sleeping in to playing practical jokes on her fellow campers. Yet when Emma draws the attention of her illusive and attractive camp counselor Vivian Black, she has to come to terms with the fact that how her summer starts isn't necessarily how it might end. Will Vivian be the key to unlocking Emma's fears once and for all?

OUT CAMPING What was supposed to be an ordinary school camping trip becomes a nightmare when forty-eight students from Riverwood High School arrive at Blackwood Forest. At first, everything seems normal. The students settle into camp, explore the reserve, and enjoy their time away from school. But as night falls, strange things begin happening. Students hear familiar voices coming from the woods, paths seem to change, and some of the things they encounter make no sense. When the group discovers that Blackwood Forest holds secrets that go far beyond an ordinary camping ground, fear begins to spread. Ethan Carter, along with his best friends Olivia, Mason, and Lucas, finds himself drawn deeper into the mystery. With the help of Ranger Hayes and others, they uncover traces of previous disappearances, an abandoned bus, a mysterious caretaker named Arthur, and something in the forest known only as the Listener-a presence capable of copying voices, memories, and even people. But Blackwood isn't simply trying to scare them. It's learning them. And the more it learns, the harder it becomes to know what is real. As the students become separated and the forest begins turning their greatest hopes and fears against them, Ethan realizes that surviving isn't enough. If they want to get home, they have to find the others-and refuse to leave anyone behind. Because in Blackwood Forest, the greatest danger isn't getting lost. It's being forgotten. And once the forest remembers you... getting out may no longer be a choice.

"When you speak of the troll, they're standing in your hallway" is an old Swedish saying that means, if you speak of the trolls, they might pay you a visit. Nea knows all the things considered forbidden to do in the woods. Especially in Finland, where her grandparents are from. She agrees to accompany Zack and Elina to the famous "Balancing Rock" Kummakivi in Finland for this very reason, hoping she can prevent bad things from happening, since Zack seems to lack all forms of respect for things related to folklore. Little does she know what Zack is really planning, and soon, she has a reason to fear for her life. 🍁🍂🍁 This is a novella that I entered a writing competition with and won. The Swedish anthology Folktro 2 (Folklore 2) is coming out on September 25th 2026, and this is my English translation for those who can't read the original. More info on how to find the book and the source material for all the eerie and bloody encounters this story is based on is in the last chapter. This story is, after all, based on true events.

friends are on a camping trip in the woods but something is here with them, and it slowly drives them insane.

Seven friends. One forgotten forest. They went to Blackwood looking for an adventure. They found something that should have remained forgotten. Four boys. Three girls. One forest. And Blackwood doesn't let everyone leave. The Blackwood Curse - Vesper Gray

She knew that her twin brother Casey got into trouble outside of school, but she didn't know that he was getting into "Lukas Hasten" kind of trouble. And until Christmas break, the name Lukas Hasten meant nothing to her. Boy, those were the days. ******* Dev Asters is used to flying to Garber, Michigan every year for Christmas break. She's used to how her parents leave her and her brother behind to go on luxurious vacations. And she's used to spending most of her time with her aunt and uncle when her brother runs away with his friends. But the one thing that she isn't used to is having her routine, no matter how boring, interrupted. So when her parents tell her that they're moving to Garber in the summer, her world is turned upside down. Things seemingly can't get any worse. That is, until the day she meets Casey's friends. They agree to go to an abandoned house in the woods. But when they get there, they find something unthinkable. There's a dead body in the forest, and no one seems to know what happened or how it got there. At first the death is labeled an accident, but it soon becomes apparent to Dev that something more sinister has taken place. *I do not own the images used on the cover of my book*

Okay I was inspired by the one commercial where the father takes the doll and the little girl follows, and goes after her doll. In this story two year old Alexis was abandoned in the woods, and three out of the four members of one direction rescue her and bring her back to base camp. What will Simon say when he sees the guys with a little one. This is going to be a Nouis story by the way where Niall and Louis are going to raise Alexis as their own daughter

♱ Erin only agreed to the camping trip because her best friend refused to take no for an answer. Four days. One lake. Endless bonfires. Old friends, awkward reunions... and an ex she wasn't ready to see again. She expected an uncomfortable weekend. She didn't expect the new guy from London. Sometimes the best stories begin when you stop looking for them. ♱ A slow-burn Central Cee fanfiction.

Five college friends eat the wrong mushrooms on a camping trip in the Maine woods. What follows them home doesn't want their bodies. It wants the part of them that thinks. A horror short story, and my entry for The Shortys 2026.

Doey The Doughman introduces Poppy, Giblet, Smiling Critters and Nightmare Critters to all the fun of camping out. Discover the mysterious spider that he is one of Poppy's secret family members. Smiling Critters, Nightmare Critters, Poppy and Giblet encounter all sorts of woodland creatures, study the stars, learn valuable forest safety lessons, and - best of all - discover the delights of imagination.

Every year Genevieve goes to a cabin in the woods with her family during the summer break. But this vacation turns upside down. Genevieve doesn't believe in fairytales until she gets wrapped up in this classic story about an enchantress who cursed a man to be wolf by day, human by night. And becomes more involved than she wanted. Can she end this not so happily ever after story? Or will she become trapped in its pages forever?

Minho has always told himself that the way his heart races around Jisung is nothing more than a misread signal. They're just close friends. That's all they're supposed to be. But after a camping trip, a tent made for two, and a little too much closeness, keeping his feelings hidden becomes the hardest thing he's ever had to do. Because maybe Jisung isn't as oblivious as Minho thought.

Idk man. The fandoms small so I thought I'd make this. Hope you like it! :)

*No longer updating* Supernatural Highschool - whenever I decide to end the story AU 😛 Castiel Novak is new in town. He meets Dean Winchester on his first day, who invites him to hang out with him and his friends. Eventually, they all become friends and decide to go on camping trip where something will happen that could change Cas and Dean's friendship forever. (Y'all don't judge I suck at descriptions)

Making this later, (Other version will be released on ao3 in a few)

Agosto 2024

Hello, my name is Lela and I just turned 16 but this isn't a story about that, it's about a camping trip that I go on with my father and twins sister Lola along with my fathers work make Markus and his to sons. It was all going well but then I came across an old house in the middle of the forest but that wasn't all I found. While exploring the house I didn't expect find something that would make me faint. Want to know what made her faint? Then read as Lela tell you her story!

Exhausted by setbacks and chasing funding that always seems just out of reach, American paleontologist Kerstin Harlow travels to Argentina, clinging to the hope that a single tooth fossil could lead to a new discovery. She finds herself at odds with a disgruntled new landowner, a stubborn gaucho with no patience for the strangers who wish to disturb the land that he has recently inherited. Kerstin must tread lightly to avoid conflict that could jeopardize her project. The team soon finds out that the land they are working on is just as volatile as its owner. However, in their own time, both reveal something unexpected. As the days grow shorter, the seasons shift and the tensions ease. Kerstin begins to uncover more than she ever imagined.