Happy Halloween

A quiet Sunday here, aside from the steady stream of trick-or-treaters all afternoon. One minute they weren’t there, the next, swarms of small children in costume, ravenous for candy.

I spent the day mostly hanging around. I e-mailed out that short story I’ve been working on to The First Line, and kind of, sort of started working on another story I’ve had lingering in my brain for about a week. I pretty much know what I want to do with it, but we’ll see what happens when I’m more than a couple of paragraphs into it.

I didn’t quite finish the Sunday crossword, but it was a pretty good day nonetheless. Hope you had a happy Halloween!

Halloween Eve

A pretty quiet day here, more or less exactly what I expected of it. I think I more or less managed, somehow, to reach a kind-of ending with this short story I’ve been working on. I’ll polish it a little tomorrow and send it off. Other than that, I watched a little TV, a little of the Rally to Restore Sanity — mostly Jon Stewart’s closing remarks — and this evening The Masque of the Red Death. (After Thursday’s House on Haunted Hill, I thought a little good Vincent Price was in order. Although, really, he tended to class up even the worst joints.)

And that’s about it.