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How Many Ways Can the Line Between Fact and Fiction Be Blurred?
The line between fact and fiction can be amazingly fluid.
Have you ever had an experience so bizarre, that you found yourself looking around for a camera and a crew? Like, for reals, someone is filming this shit, right?
Sometimes, as a storyteller, it feels like the line between fact and fiction can get super blurry. Particularly when you have true, actual, factual experiences that read like total fiction.
Along this line, I’m going to share with you 3 stories. Two out of three are true. One is pure fiction. I will reveal all — and summarize thoughts on the line between fact and fiction — after.
Fact and fiction — a real cliffhanger
When I was probably 12 years old or so, I attended an overnight camp in upstate New York.
Sometimes, we’d go on excursions away from camp. Daytrips to cool hiking paths all over upstate New York.
One such trip was to Kaaterskill Falls. As I recall, there were two levels from which we enjoyed the falls — from the top and a pool at the middle point.
One of the coolest features of this pool was that there was a natural amphitheater that ran behind the waterfall. It was a…
