Trigger Warning: This piece contains violence, mental health trauma, and animal harm.
He grabbed the little box, shoving garbage bags out of the way to get to it, and shouted, “Do your worst!”
Trigger Warning: This piece contains violence, mental health trauma, and animal harm.
“These words are real, even if they offend you, even if you disagree with them. They are the truth.”
Trigger Warning: This piece contains violence, mental health trauma, and animal harm.
At Halloweentime he thought he could hear it. Like bees buzzing under thick glass. Like a humming mumble. He could almost feel it.
An ancient crone’s nose pressed against the glass, inches from me. A scattering of teeth punctuated her mouth, and her eyes, devoid of expression, stared right through me.
In small village towns, villagers must beware the hungry child and its mother. Kind families, appalled at seeing a hungry child, have been known to invite the child and mother in and offer them a place to stay. They all eat their initial meal, and with much gratitude repeated to their host, they retire to sleep.
“Millie, I do believe this window is going to win the Tutty’s Port Halloween Window Fest award for ‘Best Window.’ We’ll hang the blue ribbon in the front window for all to see,” she said triumphantly.
October is also Breast Cancer Awareness Month. This beast of a killer runs rampant affecting both females and males. It should be eradicated, but instead continues to destroy families, and lives.