Halloween – Joshua G. J. Insole

My Final Story to End the Halloween Season: ‘Unlucky for Some’!

1st Nov 2020Leave a comment

…and here we are! Reedsy story number five! I hope you’ve enjoyed the journey — along with the daily Bite-Sized Horrors. I’ll now return to our regularly-scheduled programming! I know it’s not much, but I hope my little shop of horrors has at least given you a grin or a chuckle during these trying times. 🙂

This one was written for the prompt, “Write about a group of witches meeting up on Halloween night.” The title of my short story is Unlucky for Some, and you can read it here on WordPress or over on my Reedsy profile!

31 Days of Halloween #31: Recession

31st Oct 202023rd Sep 2020Leave a comment

Just for Halloween, Bite-Sized Horror is now a daily event! Two-sentence shockers based on a random prompt, every afternoon! Today’s word is recession.

A Light-Hearted Look at the Future of Halloween: ‘All HAL’s Eve’

31st Oct 2020Leave a comment

Happy Halloween, guys and gals! So, here we are: number four! This one is a bit more cheery, and good deal less bloody than the last one. It was written for the prompt, “Write about someone taking a child trick-or-treating for the very first time.”

The title of this one is All HAL’s Eve, and you can read it here on WordPress or over on my Reedsy profile!

31 Days of Halloween #30: Disaster

30th Oct 202023rd Sep 2020Leave a comment

Just for Halloween, Bite-Sized Horror is now a daily event! Two-sentence shockers based on a random prompt, every afternoon! Today’s word is disaster.

‘I Am That Which Rustles the Leaves’: A Halloween Poem

29th Oct 2020Leave a comment

Hey there! Told you I had more to come — I think this is a first, for me, writing something for more than one of the Reedsy prompts. The Spooky Season is my favourite, so I thought I’d go all out — along with my daily Bite-Sized Horrors!

This next one was written for the prompt, “Write about someone’s first Halloween as a ghost.” I didn’t intend to write a poem, but that’s what felt most natural to write — it’s still a story, of course, but with a slightly crooked rhyming scheme.

The title of this poem/story is I Am That Which Rustles the Leaves, and you can read it here on WordPress, or over on my Reedsy profile!

31 Days of Halloween #29: Soprano

29th Oct 202023rd Sep 2020Leave a comment

Just for Halloween, Bite-Sized Horror is now a daily event! Two-sentence shockers based on a random prompt, every afternoon! Today’s word is soprano.

‘Bridgemoss Guardians’: A Short Story About the Childish Magic of Halloween

28th Oct 202029th Oct 20202 Comments

It’s been a while, hasn’t it? I’ll explain the absence at a later date, but for now — Halloween fun! I hope you’re all enjoying the Bite-Sized Halloween posts! This story was written for this week’s Reedsy contest (along with a few others, but we’ll get to those in due course) Spooky Season. This one’s for the prompt, “Start your story with two characters deciding to spend the night in a graveyard,” and it’s called Bridgemoss Guardians.

You can read it here on WordPress, or over on my Reedsy profile!