Halloween 2026 Pictures

Where She Stops

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RDP Tuesday: GALIVANT

Spooky Halloween carnival game booths with haunted clown and zombie themes at night

WP AI Artwork

The scariest thing at a carnival has NEVER been the side shows, the stomach twisting rides, or the way the sounds carry late at night.

The most macabre thing at the carnival has always been the carousel and the sound of it’s gears twisted and groaning and it’s weird atonal music.

Even movies, books and artwork don’t always show the figures or mounts or menagerie figures as being user friendly.

Get on the wrong carousel and you meet your death, a demon, a ghost. They can be seated next to you, they might be watching you from the midway but they are watching you and you know that once the ride stops, you’re doomed.

Of course I love Carousels.

When I was little, I took my my decision making very seriously. I never just ran on and jumped on the prettiest horse. I would zip around and touch each one and sometimes the animal that grabbed my fancy was a tiger or a lion.

Then I would climb up hope against hope that something would happen and when we stopped, me and my ride would find ourselves at a haunted Carnival where the only thing thicker then the fog that clung to the trees was the smell of cotton candy and peanuts.

Haunted carousel labeled “The Phantom Carousel” with ghostly riders and carnival rides

Dust To Dust

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Summerween Prompt: ASHES

I think it’s admirable that people restore gravestones and mausoleums.

Each stone, each slab of granite marble and brick have a story to tell and preserving those stories is a form of immortality. There’s comfort in knowing that our story doesn’t disappear long after we’ve passed on.

But one day the wood that houses our bones, the stones that say we were here will fall to dust too and I think that’s okay.

Photo A.M. Moscoso
Saint Louis Cemetery Number One
October 31, 2012

Photo A.M Moscoso

Photo A.M. Moscoso
October 22, 2023 · Beaver Dam, WI ·
— at Oakwood Cemetery.

Best Friends Forever

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“A soulmate is someone to whom we feel profoundly connected, as though the communicating and communing that take place between us were not the product of intentional efforts, but rather a divine grace.” — Thomas Moore

… you will feel it in your bones…

Skeletons of Grover Krantz and His Dog, Clyde, at the Smithsonian Institution. Mr, Krantz donated his body to science and his skeleton and that of his beloved dog are displayed in the National Museum of Natural History.

My Summerween Writing Challenge: BONES