Friday, October 30, 2026

My Friday Evening Music

Here's your big Halloween jam for this weekend. Enjoy!

 

 


Ending Darkly

We end the Friday Horrorthon with fiction from Cole Purdy with the return of Robert Fleming's artwork. Thank you for reading Oddball Magazine this Friday. We'll be back tomorrow. 

 

Begone, Evil!

Keeping it Halloweeny. 

 

 

We're Not Done

The Horrorthon continues with flash fiction by Sasha Harding and photography by Nick Matsas at Oddball Magazine. 

 

Next Friday: First Fridays Youth Open Mic with Harissa Feltington and Zara Barryte

Held at the First Baptist Church on 633 Centre Street in Jamaica Plain. Doors open at 7:00. Click here for more info. 


Blind Wisdom

Here's Bruce Wise with Wise Words at Oddball Magazine.


Little Deaths of Childhood, Part Thirty-Two

Sad little hat.


Scott Withiam, Virtual Thursdays Dire Literary Series Plus Q and A with Timothy Gager, 10/29/26

Yesterday's Dire today. Hosted by Timothy Gager. 

 

 


Yep!

Janet Cormier takes on another kind of horror for this week.

Read Bamboozled No More! now over at Oddball Magazine. 


Lit Me Up for the Holiday Weekend

My poem "Comeback" is Halloweeny enough for Friday's edition of Lit Up. Thanks to Pecular Julia and the team for accepting my work.

 

Oh Come On!

Both sides of the War on Christmas should call this a violation of the ceasefire.

 


Happy Birthday, Julie Batten

 

 


Happy Birthday, Gloria Monaghan

 

 


My Friday Morning Music

More Halogen Girls for your Halloween listening pleasure. You want to add this to your playlist for tomorrow, right?

 

 


Leopards Eating Faces Update!

 

You know that win or lose, Darline Graham is going to be used up and discarded like all the other Republican women. 

 

Thursday, October 29, 2026

Forever

Robert Fleming's artwork is back for John Stickney's contribution to the Horrorthon at Oddball Magazine. 


Tonight: Scott Withiam with Artist George Cochran at the Virtual Dire Literary Series

Hosted by Timothy Gager. Click here to join the group and get information on how to join the call.


One Foot in the Ditch Mitch

Patricia Carragon has some haiku for us to go with artwork by Hoss for this Thursday portion of the Horrorthon at Oddball Magazine. 


The Stages of Instruction for Writing

"Write what you know."

 (Hundreds of pages later...)

"No, no, no. Write what we know." 

(A few hundred more pages later...) 

"Oh, so you think you know everything, huh?" 

 

Not the Don Bluth Version

 

Mark Lamoureux takes on Russian royalty as this week's poet for The Arts Fuse.