A ghost story by Shannon O'Connor (who also provides photography) keeps the Horrorthon going at Oddball Magazine.
Tuesday, October 27, 2026
Play Ball
Jason Wright's Jagged Thought is back for Halloween Horrorthon week.
Read it now at Oddball Magazine.
We Can Do It!
The Horrorthon continues with flash fiction by Susan Isla Tepper. She and banner artist Robert Fleming start our Tuesday at Oddball Magazine.
This Week's Most Distinguished Network Name
It's amazing what people will name their online networks. I'm always trying to hijack Wi-Fi when I'm commuting, so I often come across a number of interesting names. Every Tuesday, I post the most impressive and/or cringe-inducing names.
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| I know what this guy's dressing up as on Saturday. |
F**k October 2026
I'm going to enjoy Halloween on Saturday, but the sooner I finish with this week and get to November 2nd, the better.
Monday, October 26, 2026
Cup of News
Instant Noodles has an author's/artist's choice themed call for submissions.
You have until November 7 to send in your work.
No Mirrors Please
Poet Joanne Macias is next for the Horrorthon with Robert Fleming's banner art.
More to come this week at Oddball Magazine.
My Littlest Latest
My latest one line for the micro lit journal Smols is now up. Thanks once again to Roberta Beach Jacobson!
Certainly Horror Themed
Anne Skove's latest comic certainly keep the spirit of the type of scares we want to evoke this week. Read "She Who Laughs Lasts" now at Oddball Magazine.
And So It Begins: The Horrorthon!
Jim Bellamy is our first poet for our week of real horror-tinged work.
Thanks to Robert Fleming for providing the banner art for another year.
Welcome to the week of horrors at Oddball Magazine.
Everyone stay safe out there.
Now It's Officially Fall
It took a while for Autumn to get going, but we finally got a bunch of new stickers from Marianne Radnitzky all around Jamaica Plain.
My Momday Morning Music
I highly recommend you add Halogen Girls 3000 music to your Halloween playlist this year. Here's one of their songs with the more zombie-themed music coming later.
Sunday, October 25, 2026
Fighting Figurine
My partner's father passed away over a year ago. He was a retired electrician and a constant tinkerer. Of the many items in our home (including a steampunk lamp), two in my personal collection include his pumped version of a "desk top jock" they used to sell in the eighties. This is more of a desktop gladiator or desktop Spartan, and he dominates the top of my bookshelf.
Your Weekly Dose of God
I saw this book cover. Thought it was a DVD cover of a mockbuster of The Croods.
Saturday, October 24, 2026
The more friends that come back to Stone Soup Poetry this year, the better. I always wanted to feature Julie Marie Hoey in person. She has since moved away and Stone Soup is still online only for now, but we can still make that feature happen this month in the virtual world. Please join us for her feature on November 11.
Join us on Wednesday, November 11, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 889 3455 6668
Password: stonesoup
November 4: Tzynya Pinchback Starts Our Final Spiral
On November 4, the midterms will be over and we will plunge into either the growing horror that is the year's end the somewhat stilted horror of this year's end. Either way, let's trudge on with the help of Tzynya Pinchback on November 4.
I asked her to give us the same energy I see in her social media, and I know she won't disappoint.
Join us on Wednesday, November 4, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 862 1993 8734
Password: stonesoup
My Saturday Haiku for Bluesky, 10-24-26
Write haiku before
the October morning frost
bites your fingers off.
Friday, October 23, 2026
My Friday Evening Music
Some monster-masked metal from Gwar that fits my mood And Halloween is just around the corner! What's being featured next week? Youll have to wait and see.
A Poet on Thought and Prayer
A poem by Luis Lázaro Tijerina seemingly closes out Oddball Magazine for the week. Thank you for reading us.
My Wish
I would love to go through today without making any noticeable mistakes.
It's been so long since I've had even a one-day streak.
My Friday Morning Music
An actual Gwar video this time. I don't listen enough to Gwar to have expectations, but I definitely wasn't expecting horns!
Leopards Eating Faces Update!
Black influencer Thelma Louise was convinced she mattered. Now her face doesn't even appear in a story about her.
Thursday, October 22, 2026
Waiting Sucks
I look like hell and want to hide somewhere for the next few days, but I'm trying to keep a positive attitude while waiting for the messenger to come.
The Silent Part
James Van Looy poem column helps prepare us for the end.
Not the weekend. Just the end.
Read It's All One Thing today at Oddball Magazine.
Stone Soup Poetry All Open Mic, 10-21-26
From this week's online gathering. A nice break between features. We have some good ones coming up.
Waving Ourselves Along
Thanks to everyone who came out for Stone Soup Poetry's all-open mic respite. We have special feature David Fulcher next week, and I hope to announce the first two features for November very soon.
Wednesday, October 21, 2026
Fffffffffuuuuuuuuc--
I'm done today.
Let's go home.
Stone Soup online will be starting in a few hours.
See you there, I hope.
Another Dialogue
Poet Matthew E. Henry and artist Thomas Riesner show us a different way of interacting with the world. Thank you for reading Oddball Magazine this Wednesday. Come back for more, including our Horrorthon next week.
Boylston Revisited
Poet Daniel Barlekamp is paired with photography by Boston favorite Edward S. Gault to kick off another Wednesday at Oddball Magazine. Thanks for stopping by.
Simmer Down
Susan Isla Tepper appears once again in Lyrical Somerville Read her latest piece over at The Somerville Times.
October 21: Stone Soup Poetry Takes an All-Open Mic Break
It's another all-open mic this Wednesday, but I wasn't initially planning to have Stone Soup this week. So I look forward to seeing you all tonight.
Join us on Wednesday, October 21, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 899 8556 7915
Password: stonesoup
So Much Out Thre
If I hadn't taken a picture of this down in Dorchester on Saturday, I would have never found out about this project. I wonder if they'll still take letters.
About That "'47 Clean Up" Post
Regarding this post from two weeks back, I acquired new information. I saw my girlfriend's Red Sox hat, and it had the same sticker on it. She said the hat came from a store near Fenway. So it's much more likely that people are simply buying hats and getting rid of the "'47 Clean Up" sticker with no political agenda at all. I can accept that, but I've noticed this sticker since March, and every time I see a sticker, I'm still going to wonder a little.
A Moment of Comics
In a perfect world, I'd have enough time to write about the comic Providence. Sadly, I've only started researching the series by listening to audio versions of the H.P. Lovecraft stories Alan Moore used as his source material. I'm really feeling good about my thesis, but not my ability to be timely. A page from Providence, whose characters are taken from Lovecraft's "The Horror at Red Hook." With amazing work from Jacen Burrows, Lovecraft is damn lucky Moore adds so much humanity to his work.
American Haiku: Trump Tickles
When I started my Sarcastic Haiku series, I wrote my first American Haiku.
An American Haiku doesn't care about tradition, formality or history. it takes as long as it wants to make its point because America. You can read
others I've written since by clicking here and scrolling down.
You're more Fagin types.
Your Wednesday Morning Poetry
I have had Randall Jarrell, who I mostly read about in the infamous book Manic Power: Robert Lowell and His Circle, I want to read more of him now. Let's start with a poem I've read before. Revisit "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" courtesy of the Poetry Foundation.
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