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Old Van Tassel is a tale taking place on Halloween. Yes, I know that December is a month usually reserved for other holidays, but for me, Halloween is pretty much an all year holiday. Besides, who can resist a good ghost story? I'm always ready. Here's a little teaser for one I wrote:
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Halloween night in the valley. For this time of year, it is exceptionally mild. Usually, the ground is pretty firm and there might even have been a snowfall or two in addition to some hard frosts. This year has yet to see a frost, and an eerie, pea-soup fog about four feet high covers the entire valley floor.
Yet, the trees are almost stripped of all their leaves, the branches looking like long, skinny arms raised in supplication to some unseen force, the finger-like tips appearing as though they are deformed hands reaching out for something, but what?
This part of Northern New Jersey is in the middle of old Dutch country, and a lot of the old legends still persist, even after centuries of change. Tales of the spirit of old man Van Tassel always surface on nights like this when the landscape is transformed to that of a different place, a different time.
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I hope this teaser for my short story makes you want to read the tale in its entirety.
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Blaze McRob
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