Celebrating spooky season, with a Halloween Countdown, I’m serially tweeting an abbreviated version of “Wight Christmas” throughout October.

In the story, Louis’s Christmas decorations have only recently been stored away for the year, but Edward has been stewing on the unseasonal longevity of  his roommate’s display all summer, and Louis is in for a surprise where his yuletide treasures are concerned.

Unfortunately, Edward is also in for a surprise.

Wight Christmas is one of five stories in “Weird Rhody,” which collects five haunting tales from the imaginations of talented Rhode Island writers.

The cover of the book depicts an aptly haunting photo taken in 2013 by Mary Carlos, “Salty’s Chair”, at Salty Brine Beach in Narragansett, RI, paying homage to the iconic Rhode Island WPRO radio host Salty Brine who was famous in Rhode Island for, among many other things, calling snow days in “Fosta – Glousta” on WPRO AM.

Halloween breezes past me so quickly, most years it’s all I can do to help Mary (of Salty’s Chair) set up the front yard to properly welcome kids trick-or-treating their way through the neighborhood. This year things are moving a little more slowly, thankfully, and I have some space to breathe. Enough breathing room to think about the holiday instead of letting it run me over at the last second.

I hope your Halloween is scary for all the right reasons, and that Wight Christmas is one of them. If you enjoy it, there are similarly spooky tales, including a more fleshed out version of Wight Christmas, to enjoy in the anthology.

Hope to see you around!

It's 11 days till Halloween. Hows about a nice Babylonian ghost story out of Weird Rhody?

Wight Christmas:
Edward opened the closet, and late afternoon sunlight lit dust motes, showing a small space of belongings packed around Louis’s Christmas tree.https://t.co/902jm4tVBJ pic.twitter.com/brAqoDjtug

— fantasticforay (@fantasticforay) October 21, 2021