2025-10-28 19:00:52 The Apocalypse Will Not Be Televised, and Neither Is the Effect of the Hurricane on Cuba by Denise Dumars Auctober Apocalypto The blossoms are red and the cat is white but ashes darken his fur (what do…
2025-10-28 13:41:00Halloween Haunts: A DREAM OF VIOLENCE & BLOOD Rosemary Thorne The first night Lucy slept in the independent town of Cazalia, (Toledo, Spain), she dreamt of a blue bird. Cazalia, my birthplace, is seldom found on maps; its ancient…
2025-10-27 23:00:55HALLOWEEN HAUNTS: KINDNESS ABOVE ALL By Naching T. Kassa Just before my mother passed in June of 1998, she asked me what I wanted to do with my life. At the time, I didn’t understand the importance of…
2025-10-27 22:20:40 Dinner for One Reddened spoons. Napkins of aging skin. A table for none where once pumped a hopeful heart. Foolish from the start the refreshing glass of toil-laden piss, ripened to this- Vacant meal of me, mournful dish, …
2025-10-27 13:35:55Halloween Haunts: Three Generations of Halloween and Horror Love By Arin Ruhl A love of horror is my inheritance on my mother’s side, and Halloween is a family extravaganza. We own more Halloween than Christmas decorations, and perhaps…
2025-10-26 23:26:25 Halloween Haunts: How Scary Movies Went Mainstream, and How They Got Sutured to Halloween By Stacie Herrington Halloween and horror movies go together like peanut butter and chocolate. But it wasn’t always that way. Reese’s commercial (1986) Once…
2025-10-26 13:32:00Halloween Haunts: When Dreams Turn Prophetic: What My Nightmares Taught Me By KC Grifant Throughout my life, my dreams have been vivid, inspiring and, even fairly recently, borderline prophetic. Dreams becomes more culturally significant during the Halloween season.…
2025-10-25 23:28:03Halloween Haunts: DON’T SELL SHORT HORROR STORIES SHORT by Paul Lonardo For me, short stories are a lot like appetizers. They are bite-size, delicious and fulfilling. You can even make a meal out of them. Have you ever…
2025-10-25 13:23:25Halloween Haunts: A Modest Defense of “Trick or Treating”by Darius Jones By now, my Fellow Americans, I’m certain that many of you are aware of a fast-moving pestilence sweeping the land. A corrupting tendency, most un-American, among many of…
2025-10-24 23:07:32Halloween Haunts: SPIDER SEASON By Evan Baughfman Recently, I picked Arachnophobia for our Family Movie Night, and my kids (over)reacted as if I’d told them we’d be bobbing for egg sacs inside a squirming tub of tarantulas. They…
