Posted in Halloween Fun on October 31, 2007 | 2 Comments »
On Halloween Night we used to love to do things like test drive Mortality.
Here’s how we did it:
Blood Mary
You know that legend about Bloody Mary? You’re supposed to stand in front of a mirror, in the dark ( well, use some candles I mean- duh- if you can’t see what’s going on you’re out of [...]
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Posted in Halloween Fun on October 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »
From Ghoulies And Ghosties….
and long leggety beasties and things that go bump in the night,
Have A Happy Halloween!
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Posted in Halloween Fun, The Arts on October 31, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Excorcising the Dog
an unusually short play
by yours truly
The Players : Madison Cartwright: Madison speaks with a Southern drawl. Her bawdy attire, slow colloquial speech, and winsome smile mask an acute perception. She’s about twenty-nine.
Phillip Smith: Phillip is a rookie attorney dressed appropriately in a suit and tie. He considers Madison a bawdy con-artist and treats [...]
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Posted in Halloween Stories on October 30, 2007 | 6 Comments »
The mischief stirred in his bed of leaves. He stretched slowly, and then wiggled around until his head poked out of the leaves. He sniffed the air, and then stuck his head a little farther up and sniffed again. Then he wiggled with delight. Then air was filled with the scent of Halloween, and so [...]
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Once I went into an abandoned house just to take a look around.
It was nice in there- there was a beautiful oak staircase and beautiful oriental rugs on the floors and lace curtains in all of the windows.
There were no beer cans on the floor or rock band names spray painted on the walls. There were no [...]
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Posted in Halloween Fun on October 30, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Posted in Halloween Stories on October 29, 2007 | 8 Comments »
In the part of New Jersey where I live, there are many abandoned bits of civilization in the woods. Towns that simply disappeared off the map, either because the state bought out the land to create reservoirs or they just simply faded away as more convenient communities were developed nearby and people died off. The [...]
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I grew up in coastal South Carolina - a little town called Georgetown - where ghosts are almost as ubiquitous as the tourists who flock to the beaches. Ghost stories were passed around among us children like so much candy, and there was always the (sort of) hope that one of us would actually see one. None of my [...]
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Two more days until the big one. The day we take the kids around the neighborhood to collect chocolate for us parents. Holloween is my favorite holiday. Not just for the candy, I love the costumes, too. Even the yards are dressed to kill:
Candy gathering is best done like writing a story, which in [...]
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