I’m sitting upstairs in my office on Wednesday night scaring myself for your benefit. The house is quiet, the wind is howling, the night is dark – pitch, black, dark, and I am reading…
Tag: paranormal mysteries
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Ghostly Love
Ghost stories and Valentine’s Day? It’s surprising to realize how many ghost stories are actually stories of unrequited love, love gone wrong or star-crossed lovers. Romeo and Juliet – I bet their ghosts spend…
The Loo
Let me share a secret about the hygiene of many, many writers. When we’re on deadline or in the midst of a creative burst, we may forget about one of the basic processes in everyday…
Haunted Hegewisch
Hegewisch (pronounced heg-wish) is a neighborhood on the South-East side of Chicago. Actually, you can’t go any further South or East without leaving the City! One of my friends, an avid fan of all-things-Chicago,…
Going Home
Years ago, when I had my own marketing company, I had a number of funeral homes as clients. I worked with them for years and learned a lot, not just about their business, but…
How Do You Know?
Last Tuesday afternoon I found myself at the Cowboy Café in Sheridan, Wyoming. It’s located in the historic district of Sheridan and was chock full of really cool cowboy memorabilia, as well as excellent…
Holiday Surprise
As my children have gotten older, one of the new traditions we have during the holidays is the drive out to Idaho to take them back to college. Since we have family in Idaho…
Snowy Drives
Over the weekend, we received about six to eight inches of snow, and more snow is supposed to fall on Friday night, which is really just life in the Midwest. But there’s a loneliness…
Window Shopping
Emmet Kryndle was a businessman. That was what he considered himself when it came down to it. He counted the bills and the coins in the till and sharply closed the drawer on the…
The First Friday of Christmas
It’s the most wonderful time of the year. There’ll be scary ghost stories and tales of the glories of Christmases long, long ago. Christmas and ghost stories go together like peanut butter and jelly…
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