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*bounces excitedly* I ordered my letterman's jacket! It's pretty and it's navy blue with white leather sleeves and a music staff and a saxophone (alto, there was no bari) on the back, with my grad year and a bulldog on the front pockets. And my name and "Ellensburg," of course.

And I have been writing, and have vague ideas for a Halloween fic set sometime after Bloody Sunday. It has ghosts. Would ghosts seem amiss?

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[D]ark fiction dealing with the inexplicable should, itself, present to the reader a certain inexplicability. It's not about resolution nor understanding, but that brief, disturbing contact which usually characterizes actual paranormal encounters.

Oh, that's cool. That's not usually what I do, but reading that sort of thing? Is so fucking freaky. It's cool, but it's freaky, because it's like, "What happened? What...?" and everyone has different ideas about what did happen, and there's no right or wrong. Except that something definitely did happen.

I've written surprisingly little fantasy or supernatural fiction myself, especially when you consider that I *am* a genre fan, and that's the category into which a lot of my reading falls. And that's the kind of ghost story I want to try to write (and that I don't know if I can pull off or not), that kind of little hint of the supernatural, and you're not even sure if you saw it or *what* you saw, but it's enough to be unsettling.

I want to try and write that sort of story sometime, because I think it would be a challenge, but like I said, my background's primarily in fantasy. It's pretty much "in your face" sort of supernatural. It's here, you can see it, there's no way to change it or ignore it. *pokes at City of Ghosts storyline* Which is sort of what my Halloween fic is going to be about. Samhain...when the spirits can cross...