So, I know this one isn’t a big deal, but I haven’t liked writing / revisiting it, and am kinda glad I’m posting super late so maybe it won’t really get seen and I won’t get in trouble with who/whatever was in that fucking house.

On Friday night I decided to go do a ghost tour double date with my husband, a co-worker, and her boyfriend. My husband and I got there early and it was a really wonderful set-up- revolutionary war fort out of the city with super old buildings, a campfire, a drinks station, an outdoor movie theater (tragically playing…

Not my story, but my Mother’s (and my Aunts). I have permission to relay.

Every summer, my wife’s family spends two weeks at a lakeside cabin that they share with other members of the extended family. The cabin was built by my wife’s grandfather and sits at the end of a dead end road. Beyond the street’s end is a dense wooded area. I’ve only ventured back there one time, where we found an…

We moved into a new to us house 6 months ago. There are 2 large bedrooms upstairs, and 2 small bedrooms on the main floor. My husband and I take one of the upstairs bedrooms and our 2 year old daughter is in the other. Since moving in, she’s been a bad sleeper - up several times during the night, sometimes crying,…

A few evenings ago, my three-year old son was staring past me with a furrowed brow and asked who was the scary lady with black hair who lived in the bookcase? I damn near pissed myself. I looked and nothing was there, fortunately. He asked again last night who was the dark lady in the bookshelf, and my blood ran cold.…

It’s the 80s it’s Halloween on a weekday and I, being the oldest and a girl, am responsible for taking 2 younger brothers trick or treating, along with 2 young sons of my parents’ friends. My parents and the kids’ parents are at our house playing cards and and smoking cigarettes.

I continue to have a recurring thought, that at some point a culling is necessary, that those who refuse to see their fellow human beings as HUMAN BEINGS have to be excised from the population like gangrenous tissue in order not to poison the whole. It’s an extreme position that appears less and less extreme the…