This time of year is all about the grill, the smell of suntan lotion and spent fireworks, and the whir of the pool cleaner as it grazes the bottom of your neighbor’s pool. But if you’ve reached this post, you might be thinking way beyond summer. You’re thinking of autumn. The burns on your tongue …
Ed and I are seated at a campfire, seemingly in the middle of nowhere. All around us, thick copses of trees, barely perceptible in the dark. If we focus our gazes up long enough, we can see the stars. I am sitting opposite him across the fire, contemplating making another s’more, and he’s watching me, …
Hello! I’m Jen the Strange, and I am here to translate some information from my good friend Ed (not alive, RIP) who is here to answer some questions about ghosts, life, the afterlife, and everything in between. Let me introduce Ed. Ed is a musician and a writer, but I think he is especially fond …
Jen tries to ward off a terrifying ghostly figure my radiating happiness toward it.
There is no greater freedom for a wily 14-year-old than having the house to yourself. It was 2004, and the sun had just set on a long, tired Saturday in Tennessee. My parents escaped into the night to gamble away their money, leaving the house to me and the cats. I was often home alone, …
