Seven of these nineteen stories are, for lack of a better description, tales with a Halloween-esque theme. I have tagged these stories in the Table of Contents. Some folks enjoy "spooky" stories; some don't. I wanted to give you a heads-up in case you fall into either of these groups. I've not yet figured out exactly what, in literary terms, a short story is supposed to accomplish, except to say it should do so with far fewer words than a novel. My...