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Thank you. Welcome to Tales to Terrify. Part of the District of Wonders Network,

featuring Starship Sofa, Crime City Central, and Protecting Project Pulp.

Everyone has a story in the District of Wonders.

Come and find yours.

Good evening, children of the night. Come on in. Welcome. Welcome to the Nook, to Tales to Terrify, and welcome to October. This is our month, is it not? Yes, it is. The chill begins to ooze into the world. The night sky runs in cloud and things of the imaginations, run with the wind and dodge the stars. The clouds scud

across the moon and stars, and isn't that a wonderful word. Scud.

To describe the run of clouds when October skies are full of night and moon and witches and other things, writing coaches tell you not to use words like scud to describe what

clouds do on a night when the sky seems to run before a storm, the coach will tell you.

Avoid words like that.

They call attention to themselves.

They stop the reader on the page.

They say, if you don't have anything interesting or new, to say about those clouds, telling us that they are scudding along won't help.

Well, that's probably true.

But, boy, words like that work on the ear.

Okay, good evening.

I'm Lawrence Santoro.

This is the nook.

That out there in the night is fall.

And here, on the wall, is new art.

Take a moment. Have a look.

The artist tells me the painting is called Hawaiian Ene.

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