Figured I'd post up here just in case that poor thread decides to vie with some of those one can sometimes see in the Poser forum. After all, it IS getting closer to Halloween. First of all, let me apologize for getting behind in comments. To be frank about it, when I click on my R'City link and I pass the 30-second limit before being greeted with my favorite colors...I click out. It gets me too upset that it takes so long. Especially with my cable link I got a few months ago. So, at the 30-second point, I give up these days. But, tonight, R'City is doing darn good! So, to briefly comment on a few of the stories in the original thread: "Coffee table...crashing through", "Spiral map and pulled inward" and finally, "Confederate dad": Pardon my "title morphs"--I can't get to the messages when I am here. All were good. All, though, seemed to me to be variations of something written before. "Coffee Table" got pretty far down before I started to see it. That was good. And a good ending! "Sixth Sense" movie popped into my mind. Same with "Spiral Map". But it had a good literary hand to it. I liked the imagery when the "web" was focused upon. But it reminded me of "Sixth Sense" and "Beetlejuice" (vaguely). "Confederate Dad" is a common theme. As soon as the door opened, I knew it was going to be from the otherworld. Kinda like the RR switchman story. I certainly don't want to disparage any of those stories so please contain any flaming. 'Cause I enjoyed reading each of them! I think all those stories were written well. Each contained a personal touch and unique authorship. The themes, though, have been used a lot of times and it's hard to improve upon them or surprise the readers. There was one story that held a bit more "uniqueness" than the others, though. Something I had never seen before. That one was the one about the people who followed after vampire activity. I'd have to say the most original. Only because I haven't seen it before. And, to me, being original, being able to completely surprise the readers is one of the hardest things to do in the "horror" genre. I am tempted to "add on" to this Halloween challenge by challenging any further additions to try something that's never been done before. Or an angle that hasn't been done before. Or even completely weird. But, there are contests to be attended to...hehe. Also, notice I didn't have the nerve to post a story on this one so one might expect I would have a lot of nerve! So call me chicken (grin). Anyway, I DID enjoy the stories!