Maria's Day by John Zakour and Scott Roberts for October 31, 2012

You can thank a couple of northern tier congressmen for the daylight saving time changes that brought this about. Idiots!

Happy Halloween Mr. Zakour, Mr. Roberts have fun and stay safe!

Two of those costumes are ones I went out in as a kid. Which two do you think?

Happy Halloween to all you readers.

Nom, nom nomNope this piece isn’t good.Nom, nom nomThis one either.Nom, nom nomYou know what? None of these are safe. I’ll just take these and get rid of them.Nom, nom nom

To this day, one of the smells that evokes Hallowe’en instantly is that of a Baby Ruth. I always came back with some of those in my bag. Candy corn, too, of course.

It’s plenty dark by the time we go trick or treating, and my kids are 7 & 9, so we’re not out too late.Happy Halloween, everyone! Have fun and stay safe! Best wishes to those affected by Sandy (not the Halloween trick that you wanted, I’m sure…)

Not really Maria.

I proofread and copy edited “The Sapphire Sirens.” So I got to be one of the first to read it. Although it was a kind of weird, fractured ‘work while reading’ experience.

that’s exactly right about starting after dark and no adult accompaniment that was only a mere fifty years ago……things were sure …..different

Since no one else ventured a guess, I’ll just blather on and reveal that I went once as a clown and once as a witch. I decided on the witch because, with kid logic, I figured it would be harder to guess who I was. “No one will expect a witch to be a boy!” I thought. As long as I got the candy, all was well in my world.

John’s been working up a graphic novel with artist John Dellaire. Personally, I’d like to see more of the regular prose novels, but first there has to be a publisher smart enough to pick them up. DAW said seven was it, no more. Fools!