Option One: Can You Picture That?

Photo Credit: Jef Poskanzer

• House, Perhaps Abandoned, by Tiel Aisha Ansari
• Lost, by Rob Kistner

Option Two: Poetry

Witch and ghost make merry on this last of dear October’s days.
~ Author Unknown

• Bloody Sue (Reprise), by Rob Kistner
• Reaper Groom, by Rob Kistner
• Of Witches and Ghosts, by Bobbi

Rules? (In Which Jeremy Ignores Them, to Good Effect), by Jeremy

Option Three: Fiction

“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.”
~ George Carlin

• Feral Love, by J.C. Montgomery
• Family Dinner, by Lissa
• #22, by Wine Dark Sea
• The Howling Moon, by Bobbi
• Judgement of the Moon, by sister AE

Option Four: Timed Writing

Halloween wraps fear in innocence,
As though it were a slightly sour sweet.
Let terror, then, be turned into a treat…
~ Nicholas Gordon

• Rosy Encounter, by Medhini

Option Five: Seven Things

“Where there is no imagination there is no horror.”
~ Arthur Conan Doyle

• Fear of the Dark, by A~Lotus
• Seven Things That Scare Me, by Bobbi
• Seven Fears, by Medhini
• Seven Scary Things, by Janet

Option Six: Pick Three

A house is never silent in darkness
to those who listen intently;
there is a whispering in distant chambers,
an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window,
the latch rises.

Ghosts were created when the first man
woke in the night.
~ J. M. Barrie

Project words: awoke, chamber, distant, ghost, house, listen, still, whisper, window

• Haunting, by Snack
• White Chamber, by Niebla
• Day of the Dead, in La Paz, by Susana
• Whispers, by Janet
• Haunting, by Tiel Aisha Ansari
• Ghostly Moans, by Bobbi
• White Cats, by Richard Wells
• Scented, by Melissa A. Bartell