Halloween Contest 2023

The last time I reached down into a jack-o-lantern to light the candle that damn tiny flame licked up and

Maggie Grace became familiar with a graveyard. Every day, she hiked the hill on the edge of town, wearing the

Welcome to my dysfunctional family. You won’t recognize us. We are not what you’ve come to expect when you hear

(Note: This story contains depictions of child kidnapping.)  I’ve always loved Halloween: feeling the soft warmth of homemade wax candles

First, carefully traverse Bill Grant’s twelve-acre pumpkin patch. Only the rotten ones are left. Then, cut along the gully to

            The crackle of a fallen leaf underfoot, a shot of brilliant red in an otherwise green-leafed tree, a certain

Roxanne was goal-oriented. All it would take was three drops of Fix-All potion in Robbie Ramone’s bottle of Swamp Sludge.

“That was a footstep,” whispered Louis. He drew his gun from the holster under his arm and moved behind a

Eleven months of the year Turner Falls is a model of constraint, coloring each day inside the lines. But in

I’m the bird that cleans the crocodile’s teeth, hanging with Buddy Boggs, the school bully. Mom says bullies are just