There Goes
the
Neighborhood!
By Jason Love
What is Halloween?
At the risk of sucking the fun out of things, what the hell is Halloween?

      Everywhere I look, it’s a wacky parade of blood and guts. If you’ve ever attended a funeral, you know that death isn’t the most amusing stage of our lives, yet every year we get Halloween, a time to raise the dead and hang bodies from the ceiling and smear blood all over our faces. To me, it’s like doing shots with O. J. Americans are a funny thing.
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On the Trail
by Gloria Glasser
An Avalanche of Ants
Has this ever happened to you?

      You awake one bright morning, walk into your dining room not quite fully awake and find that overnight someone has painted thin brown stripes all over your lovely white walls, that run clear into the kitchen and adorn the white-washed cabinetry like graffiti. Drowsily you rub your eyes. This is impossible.
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