The J-Spot

On the most fertile day of the millennia… someone’s getting F*d. IMage via PXfuel.com I practiced with a samurai sword for five years straight and never cut myself once. During the course of six months, I have cut myself with my sickle twice. It hangs from my belt when I go into the woods to worship. Suspended by a braided faux suede cord. If you leave enough length, it will get enough arc in its swing to come back and pierce your thigh, so I shorten it, always too late. I guess this is a prime example of why a father is always worried about safety first. When my seventeen-year-old daughter was obviously planning to sneak away for a teenage Halloween party, I wrestled with forbidding her to go or just handing her a handful of condoms. Between her mother and I, we probably managed little more than persuading her to move out on the day of her eighteenth birthday! Meanwhile, I was planning my own Halloween expedition, to sow seeds of a different kind, of thought, word, and deed. This ...

  I found James and the Giant Peach one of the best live-action animation marriages of the 20th century. If you missed it, its stop-motion-like production gave it a dreamy feel kinda like Wallace and Gromit did when you first laid eyes on ‘em. The movie starts out in real-life like Roger Rabbit and Cool World dared to do way back in the 1980’s and early 90’s. James escapes his evil step-mothers by hitching a ride on a magical peach, across the ocean to New York city. That’s when the adventure turns a little creepy, but in a good Nightmare before Christmas kinda way. The story inspired me to write a similar tale of whimsy about another young boy who was estranged from his father. But instead of a peach, their relationship rested on the maiden voyage of a magical pumpkin, through the vacuum of space. Just in time for Halloween, Bookflurry has made the ten minute tale available FREE. Now you can follow the pumpkin from patch to planet. Read the flash fliction adventure, Pumpkin ...

A Whimsical Halloween Flash Fiction Jake’s father works for NASA, where they plan to Jettison a pumpkin into space during a Halloween special event. After his friend draws a face on the gourd, Jake takes up a personal connection with it. It may have to do with his parent’s recent separation. The event could be key in a meaningful reconnection between father and son. Copyright 2014 by Jay M. Horne Bookflurry, Inc. has reproduced this book with the author’s permission on the world-wide-web for the convenience of his readers. All copyright protections are still in effect. Copying and pasting, screen captures, distribution, etc. is strictly prohibited. Pumpkin Planet “We’re not gonna kill it! We’re just going to carve it. It won’t feel a thing."   It almost looked intelligent, with its crooked grin and beady little eyes, which we had yet to cut out of its head.   "It’s Halloween, Jake! This is what people do!" said Gage as he turned the gourd in his hands. Gage had been ...

Copyright 2014 Illustrations designed by Jay Horne Margaret gets her first job assignment in high school. The only problem is that everyone knows to stay away from the dilapidated warehouse on 9th and Melon. Is she too old to let childish stories scare her off from cleaning the old windows? Classic Bedtime Horror.