“Every date?” I asked.

“Every one,” Larry said.

I cleared my throat and took another sip from my milkshake. It was Halloween night at the local bar and the wait staff were dressed in their crazy finery. Our waitress was a zombie.

I wasn’t sure we were on a date or if this was a friends hanging out kind of situation.

“Wanna come see what I’ve collected?” He asked.

I picked a French fry ...

Bibbly bobbly

Wibbly wobbly

The witch twirled her fingers

Round and round

Making potions

Making trouble

Just a bit of fun

Til the neighbors complained

Bad smells

Odd fumes

Strange happenings in the night

It wasn’t fun anymore to

Have a town witch...

You could have knocked me over with an emery board when I found out I’d won the lottery for the Kardash Procedure.

Complete regeneration from head to toe. My 40-year-old body would become the picture of youth, smooth, wrinkle free, cellulite free, my sagging breasts once again pert, my turkey bagged arms firm and muscular.

It was great at first. When I woke up with my new body.

Of course the...

“Oops,” the witch said. “I really need to get glasses to read these spells correctly.”

Pitch, her black cat, sat before her now, filing her nails with an emery board. The girl’s long black hair trailed down her back and her eyes were obsidian stones.

“Well, this is interesting,” the cat-now-girl hissed. “I can do so much more as one of you, can’t I ?”

The witch paged furiously through her book...

I greet the sunrise and stretch my branches into the air

I feel the water of recent rain amongst my roots

Squirrels tickle my bark as they search for acorns

Hundreds of years I’ve been here

Started from a tiny acorn that a squirrel didn’t eat

I have seen the movement of the world around me

While I stay in one spot, just looking...

I just wanted to go for a normal walk.

It started out that way, at least.

My mother used to tell me to never whistle near a graveyard at night. This is something you need to know to understand my story.

I leashed up my dog, Sparky, for his evening walk.

The night was crisp, it was the first of October. My shoes crunched on the fallen leaves like I was stepping on old bones, cracking them t...

Ugh, Randy thought, as he seated himself in the bumper car. Shelley was in another car across from him and doubtless would slam into his car at every opportunity. He rolled his eyes at her. She didn’t see him.

Shelley didn’t seem to know he was there, in fact. The buzzing noise started, indicating the cars could move. He slammed the pedal and careened into George.

“Dude,” George yelled, laughi...

It was Snuffles the bear who noticed first. Sometimes Stevie left him alone to go to the doctor but the little boy always came looking for him. It wasn’t a whole day.

Snuffles had seen better days. One of his arms was hanging by a thread and an eye button was missing, there was some spit up on his back side and a lot of fur was worn away, but his love for Stevie was stronger than worn fur and mi...

Everyone crowding around me, trying to be present while I am on this side of the veil.

Funny, all I think of are the men in my life. Warren from kindergarten, the first to break my heart. Then Billy in high school. Later, Jake, my first lover. Ben, my husband, who broke my heart by dying of cancer.

Now it’s my turn. It’s nice to be the one leaving, instead of being left....

“When I was little, I used to lay outside and reach my hands up to the sky above, convinced I could touch the great moving clouds of I just extended my arms a little further…” Flash said, his arms also up in the air, illustrating the story for Ming.

“I was never allowed to lay outside,” Ming said. “Being born into royalty, it was not dignified for me to look like I was having fun.”

Flash pointed...