Photo A.M. Moscoso
It is always dark
where the dead
still dream.
Photo: A.M. Moscoso
JNW’s Halloween Challenge: Night
Into The Dark
JNW’s Halloween Challenge
All Who Enter Here
Photo A.M. Moscoso
Follow me- don’t worry- the Sun is shining and it’s lunchtime.
There’s nothing to be scared of.
You’re not worried are you?
Good.
Because there’s an interesting story just around the side of this building.
Let’s go.
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Go ahead and take a good look- it was here that they found it.
What was it, you ask.
Well, here just follow me a little further down the alley.
They found a head.
A severed human head.
Nobody knows who it was, nobody knows who took it or why.
The mouth had been sewn shut and the tongue was missing.
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It was a big story a few years ago- it was in all of the papers.
But the tongue thing, that wasn’t in the papers.
Oh just a second I have a key… let me just give the door a little push, it gets stuck sometimes.
Anyway.
I rented this place a few years ago.
There’s something inside I want to show you.
Come on, I know it’s dark in here and smells a little funny but you’ll…
Hey.
What’s with the look?
What’s the matter with you?
Cat got your tongue?
That’s ok.
Saves me the trouble.
A.M. Moscoso’s Niece: P. Knapp
(based on a true story)
amm
JNW’s Halloween Challenge: Boo
To Grandmother’s House We Go
” How come we only go to Grandma’s house at night?” I asked my Mom a very long time ago.
My Mom and I were in my room, We were standing in front of my open closet and chosing which dress I should wear to Grandma’s.
” Do you want to wear the red one or pink?” she asked me.
I looked into my closet and pointed to the pink dress.
” Grandma likes it that way, that’s why.” she said. ” Go chose out you socks.”
” Do they have to match?”
” Each other .” my Mom told me.
I ran to my dresser and pulled open my sock drawer and pulled out purple knee socks. ” Here. I want to wear these.”
My Mom shrugged. ” Okay.”
” Mom, come on. Why can’t we go during the day? Grandma doesn’t have a tv and I’ll miss my shows.”
” It won’t kill you to miss Love American Style every once and awhile. God, I’d like to know what you see in that show anyway, you’re six years old”
” No monsters.”
” Are you kidding me?”
I hopped up on my bed and started to jump up and down.
” Will you stop that?” Mom tossed my dress at me.
I watched it land near my pillow.
” No. It helps me think.”
I kept bouncing.
” Ok. I’ll bite. what are you thinking about?”
” Why do we have to go to Grandma’s at night.”
My Mom handed me my dress and told me to stand still. She tied my hair back into a ponytail and started to pick at my bangs.
” Because she’s a Devil during the day. You know that.”
My Mom flicked some loose hairs out of her way as she fixed my hair and then gave a quick little rub to the tiny little horns that were just starting to bud from the sides of my forehead. “Get dressed. She’s making your gingerbread men for a treat tonight. You know how they taste funny when they start to cool.”
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JNW’s Halloween Challenge: Party
In A Maze
JNW’s Halloween Challenge: Corn Maze/Hay Ride
There used to be a few farms out here- as far as I know no hayrides.
These are the suburbs and they have been for a long time.
But if you look around you can still find the wildness of what once was.
You only have to walk the maze to find it.
amm
Photo A.M. Moscoso
Photo A.M. Moscoso
Photo A.M. Moscoso