WARNING: This is a special Halloween edition of my “weekend reading links”. If the Halloween season keeps you cowering safe inside your home, away from the dark and the scary, then it’s probably best to read no more of this page and please come back next week. You have been warned.

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In a previous post I mentioned that my story “A Delicate Touch” won the Raw Dog Screaming Press 100 Jolts Retrospective Writing Contest, judged by Dr. Michael Arnzen.

Today my prize pack arrived, and I’ll be in a state of spooky bliss surely through Halloween, if not longer into the dark of winter. …

On a recent trip to South Carolina, where it’s warm in October, I spied a small lizard creeping around on the second floor of an apartment building. The lizard watched something from his perch behind a rafter, though I’m not sure what had captured his attention. His gaze was so intent that I don’t …