Halloween

I’m Scary. And Bored of You.

In Family, Halloween, Miscellany on 2 November 2009 with no comments

Karinna, age 11, the offi­cial emo haunt of our fam­ily grave­yard. She creeped out quite a few peo­ple as she hov­ered around trick-or-treaters, glow­er­ing at them, arms crossed over her chest. No mat­ter what any­one did, she refused to speak or even smile. She just cocked her head to the side in a severely bored–and […]

My Halloween Spirit Done Got Up and Walked Off

In Halloween, Miscellany on 29 October 2009 with no comments

I have a sink­ing feel­ing this is going to be the worst Halloween in a long while.
I sus­pect the com­bi­na­tion of unsea­son­able rain (for which, don’t get me wrong, I am very grate­ful, for we’ve been suf­fer­ing drought con­di­tions since last year) and crappy econ­omy had led the folks in my neigh­bor­hood to forego the usual […]

Monsters On Parade

In Fiction, Halloween, Writing on 21 October 2009 with no comments

As the days begin to shrink in earnest and the tem­per­a­ture drops below what my California-reared skin can com­fort­ably lounge about in, mon­sters begin to claw their way out of my sub­con­scious and into the fore­ground. They whis­per, they cajole, they bark and they howl. Sometimes this is haunt­ing. Mostly, it’s extremely lib­er­at­ing.
Even as a […]