October 2025
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Raven’s Night (poem revisit for this Halloween Night)
Well, time to close out a week or so then, a week or so’s worth of creepy-esque things of mine leading up to this Halloween Night. I had already planned on finishing up the week with this one but, as a true Halloween night might call and cliche for, it is actually wildly windy out… Continue reading
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Ricky & I (short story – beginnings / revisit for Halloween week)
And another, my second to last one, for this week and me revisiting some creepy or creepy adjacent things of mine on a daily for this Halloween week. Back to April of last year. ////////////////////////////////////////// April 27, 2024 Ricky & I We watched them warily, Ricky and I, and held back at a safe distance… Continue reading
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The Scrapbook And The Man In The Black Fedora (Flash Fiction revisit for this Halloween Week)
And continuing with revisiting a poem or a story every day this week that fit a creepy theme as we approach Halloween. This one from a Flash Fiction prompt, August of last year. ////////////////////////////////////////// August 12, 2024 It’s Monday and, at the dVerse Poets Pub, we are writing Prosery, the very short piece of prose… Continue reading
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The Wind and the “Epistle” (revisit a Six Sentence Story for this Halloween Week)
And another revisit of something for the season this last week of Halloween. ////////////////////////////////////////// February 21, 2025 Earlier in the week I came across someone new to me through Sadje, a friend at dVerse Poets. She is GirlieOnTheEdge and offers prompts for Six Sentence Stories, an idea I liked, like some of the 144 word Flash… Continue reading
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Exit 21B (another poem revisit for the Halloween season)
Thought I’d spend this final week of the Halloween season revisiting some things of mine that seem to fit the mood. When I first moved here to Schenectady, New York, a year ago August, moved in with my Sis and Nephews and some bonus cats, I was still doing a commute a couple of days… Continue reading
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Third Eye Harvest Moon (poem revisit for the season)
Another re-post of something for this creepy season. ////////////////////////////////////////// October 2, 2024 In response to Merril’s “Haunted Harvest” prompt at dVerse poets. “You can take the themes of harvest or haunted literally or use them metaphorically in any way you wish. Harvest grain, organs, fish, or emotions; imagine the grim reaper with a scythe. Write… Continue reading
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Angel of Death: End Of Days, Route 9, Poughkeepsie??? (audio post revisit for the season)
Earlier this week I posted “Headstone” a fantastic video short voiced and built by a good friend and co-worker based on a flash fiction piece of mine, something for this spooky season, one that involves a graveyard’s groundskeeper coming across Death weeping at a long forgotten gravestone. Well, that is not the only story I’ve… Continue reading
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Headstone (a gothic flash fiction video short by Stephen Murray & Frankenberry)
Was talking a little while ago with good friend and co-worker, Steve, about this current spooky season, a one still more “on the way” then when we spoke and he mentioned that he wanted to build something for it, a dramatic piece of some sort, a video short, with a haunting story as well as… Continue reading
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Mr Spidey Pants (post post)
So a number of nights ago I noticed, as I sat at my desk workin’ stuff in my basement Attic, that I had some company scurrying next to my lamp and possibly sizing up whether he could lift and then beat me to death with it. Now, possible ill intentions aside, I left him to… Continue reading
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Lady Liberty: Torch bearer for Anteefa?
(snagged the cartoon from Robert Reich’s Facebook page) “Grab her fella’s, she’s the torch bearer of Anteefa!!!”“You got it Sir! She’s the torch bearer of … wait, hold on, what did you call it?”“Anteefa, she’s the torch bearer … nab her!!!”“Sorry Sir. Men (fist up) Hold! Anteefa?”“Yes, Anteefa! The enemy of the State, Anteefa!! Grab… Continue reading
Frankenberry's Attic 