FRIDAY FRIGHTFUL FICTION: Scrabbling By

     “Yow!”      “You the varmint who wanted an interview?”      “You mean you’re one of the….”      “Spooky Scary Skeletons?  That’s me.”      “But you’re….”      “Dead?  And you’re a smart little reporter.  We gonna do this or not?”      “Let me grab my notepad.  So you had to die to be a spookyContinue reading “FRIDAY FRIGHTFUL FICTION: Scrabbling By”

Another Halloween Tradition

     “Aren’t you that bloke who was JUST complaining about people telling you every single year that the original jack-o-lantern was a hollowed-out turnip?”  Yes, curried candy corn, but I have to see those videos.  I don’t have to read my own blog.      MY Halloween refrain, while repetitive, at least adds a little varietyContinue reading “Another Halloween Tradition”

FICTION FRIDAY: Sweet Fighter

     “I am impressed, Dr. Van Helsing.  You are the last person I would have expected to decorate his house so thoroughly for Halloween trick-or-treaters.”      “At this time of year, the curtain between worlds is at its thinnest.  If I can lure the demonic monsters here, I can avoid having them attack innocent partygoers.”Continue reading “FICTION FRIDAY: Sweet Fighter”

Fearsome Felines

     I suppose it was inevitable.  Now that Christmas shopping officially begins on Green Tuesday (the first Tuesday after October 12), it should not have surprised me to learn that Spooky Season begins September 1, which this year was less than a week after pumpkin spice officially returned to our latte.  This being the case,Continue reading “Fearsome Felines”

Generic Halloween

     It’s that time of year again.  The air is chill, night comes more quickly than before, and ghosts roam out with ghouls in search of things that go crunch in the night.  And by that I mean Nestle’s Crunch, along with bite-size Snickers, miniature Snickers, and full-size Snickers.  Here’s hoping your share of theContinue reading “Generic Halloween”