The Morning Call (October 31, 2023) By Michael T. Dolan I sit on the stoop and wait for darkness, a nightly ritual both simple and sacred. As daylight fades and dusk arrives, my eyes alight in the night. Autumn is made for the nocturnal, and …
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“Halloween Fears” in the Harrisburg Patriot-News (October 28, 2010). “Suddenly there came a tapping, as of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.” Edgar Allan Poe penned these words in “The Raven,” the story of a lonely man hidden inside his home, so …
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