LJ Idol: Campfire Stories

[dakotawitch]

Anthropologists don't know exactly when we did it, but it seems that one of the earliest things that our human ancestors did was master fire. Indeed, the ability to control fire seems to be one of the things that makes us human in many ways -- it allows us to cook and thus transformed our diet, it served as a source of warmth and protection and

Comments

[i_17bingo]

This was insightful. I couldn't tell where it was going at first, but when you got to the part about the heroes, I was able to look back over the whole piece and see that it was always headed there. Well done!

[shadowwolf13]

It's so very hard to be the hero and face the dark. Very well written.

[adoptedwriter]

I like this take on the prompt.

[halfshellvenus]

And if the light should instead reveal something more sinister, more dangerous, then that torch bearer is ready to fight, not to sit and wait for their doom and destruction.
This isn't the easiest path, but it is the only one that every helps anything to change.

Thank goodness for those who are willing to choose rather than to let things just happen to them.

[rayaso]

I don't know if I'd be the hero, but I enjoyed your essay very much. It made me wonder what the earliest campfire "conversations" were like, and if humans developed language before or after fire-building. This was very thoughtful.