LITERAL REMAINS

I just posted a new story, Souling, over in the short fiction. When I was a kid, I loved Trick or Treating.  Being in the masses, going door to door, it was great.  It was also neat whenever we would turn down a street that didn’t receive so much traffic, or ending up on a section [...]

It is a health and safety law that funeral homes cannot resell used coffins to the general public. I’ll buy a used car.  But a used coffin?  I have a thing about wearing someone elses underwear (if I don’t know them), so someone elses coffin?  I’d have to think about it, at least, but luckily [...]

Imagine my surprise last week when I opened my e-mail and discovered I had received an electronic parcel from Zombo’s Closet of Horrors.  They have this series called Meet the Bloggers, and inquired if I would like to contribute.  Well, is the Pope Polish?  No, he’s German, but I wanted to write the article anyway. [...]

These are some wallpapers I found while searching the ‘net.  I can’t remember where they all came from (some I’ve had for a while). J. the_novacula

Okay, so the other day I happened upon this article about this video game called The World Ends With You, and I thought “Wow! that’s a great title!”  It sounds like a U2 song, or something by The Cure.  I guess if it were a U2 song, though, it would be Your World Ends With [...]

Mabon / Autumnal Equinox, our next sabbat on the 22nd of September, is the second of three harvest holidays. A traditional practice is to walk wild places and forests, gathering seed pods and dried plants. Some of these can be used to decorate the home, others saved for future herbal magick. The making of corn dollies [...]

It’s true, Summer is fast drawing to a close.  But, it’s almost Fall.  Who doesn’t love Fall?  The wheel of the year goes round and round, round and round, round and round. This poem I just posted, “A Mystery”, is pretty much about Fall as it is about…nunya. It’s a post, so, it should please [...]

These two poems that I’ve just posted, “You Remind Me of a Song” and “To __”, are some very old pieces that I wrote way back when.  Way, way, back when.  I don’t even want to think about how long ago it’s been.  Really, it’s scary.  But they are two of my favorites that I’ve [...]

I have a new story up.  “The Little Boy In the Short Pants”  It’s a very short story.  I think the kids are calling it flash fiction these days.  Anyway, it’s posted, and you have been invited. Hope you enjoy it.  If not, then here’s to next time…. John the_novacula

I’m tired.  Just a little bit.  Allergies have me down.  Plus my hours at my day (night) job have changed somewhat, and so I’ve not been a-postin’ away here at LR as before.  But I’m trying to do some work, don’t worry, I’m getting to it, got some things brewing. As this is Thursday, and [...]

With the release of Halloween II this Friday, I thought I would give my opinions on the rest of the series; what I think are the high and low points. Halloween:  Arguably the best, and also a classic of the horror genre.  I can’t remember who said it, it may have been John Carpenter himself, [...]

Yeah, I really should have been finished with this story a couple of weeks ago, but I’ve just been kinda piddling around.  You know how it is. It’s called “At Night When the Demons Come” and it started out as one thing and became another.  That seems to happen a lot to me.  The central [...]

Okay, so, I was looking at the Poetry section and realized I had not posted any poems in quite a while now.  So I started looking through some of my files and thought I would post some that were not so “downer”, you know, maybe put some up that were a little more optimistic, maybe.  [...]