Jeff Phillips: General Blows Chicken
Big kids know how to treat themselves. I’ll always remember four Halloweens ago from the one coming up. In the space between I could’ve earned a degree, instead I just racked up a series of unfulfilled...
View ArticleJeff Phillips: Stuck Forces, A Meditation on What It Might Be Like To Be A Ghost
With Halloween creeping up, I’ve been embracing my fascination with the spooky, in particular, a good ghost story. In exposing myself to both fictional and nonfictional accounts of ghosts, I find...
View ArticleConor Cawley: Picking Halloween Costumes – A Timeline
Two Months Until Halloween: The beginning of September reminds you that summer is over. In a desperate attempt to console your sadness, you start thinking of all the great holidays on the horizon....
View ArticleKim Nelson: Haunted
The things we fear most are things unseen; Wispy shadows in the corner; the groaning creak in the stairs when no one else is home; Fragile ripples atop calm waters, hinting at something primal in the...
View ArticleMurphy Row: Short Order Horror: Terror by Text
For a special Halloween theme post, I challenged myself to write a horror story as a short story. The specific challenge was to make the reader gasp or get chills in as short of a story as possible. So...
View ArticleKirk Novak: Spooky Halloween True Story
Write about a memory of a physical injury. I ran out of the abandoned warehouse. He had a chainsaw. I heard it start. He was behind me. I ran. I ran. I ran. I fell. I fell down to the bottom of a deep...
View ArticleKim Nelson: Real Life Scary Stories (Repost)
You’re a single woman on a business trip. At the end of a long day of meetings, you go to the hotel bar to unwind and order a cocktail. There’s a handsome stranger sitting nearby who buys you your...
View ArticleDavid Jester: Do You Make that Costume in Sexy?
I would like to address a serious social issue I feel is plaguing our country, nay, the world. It’s almost Halloween and you know what that means. It’s that time of year when gender discrimination is...
View ArticleDavid Jester: They Call Me Great P
I couldn’t believe I met him. I was just strolling along, my bag of candy dragging on the ground. My wife told me 36 was too old to Trick or Treat, but ten pounds of candy proved otherwise. I was still...
View ArticleMurphy Row: Ghost Dog
“Seriously? You have an imaginative side?” “Ya,” Brandon laughed, taken aback by her surprise. “Is that so hard to believe?” “No, I just,” Francesca stammered. “Now, don’t take this the wrong way, it’s...
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