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It’s October again. So here we go. There’s a gorgon with an eye defect. She only turns statues to cheese instead of stone. A food critic says her cheese is bland. She turns him to cheese. This plot may require the typing of cheese a lot. Also, the “Gogon Zola” pun name has already been done. ** Jenny Greenteeth visits a frankly terrified dentist. ** Deciding to seek help with his love life a young man tries to invote Aphrodite’s blessing, but messes it up and invokes Thalia, Muse of comedy instead. Cue wacky sound effects and cartoon physics in the bedroom. ** A puppy is sent to hell and all the demons are too terrified of what it must have done to go anywhere near it. ** An (entirely fictional) President dies just before an election, but his party need him alive to get a supreme court pick through what with having no faith the cunt’d be re-elected, so reanimate his corpse and then have to deal with his increasing zombie hunger as the election approaches. But, hey, at least they get to turn the place into a theocracy, right? ** A descendant of Moses uses sea parting for a marine salvage business. ** A Mother and a Crone in Trenton, New Jersey, just can’t find a Maiden anywhere. ** Atropos loses her shears and suddenly people are living forever. ** ...see you next year. Maybe.

I’m thinking that there is going to have to be a third and final story after “Just One Rule.” There are going to be more loose ends and unexplored possibilities than I can address by the end of this one. Likewise, I’m planning to make last year’s Christmas story “The Ninth Reindeer” the first of a trilogy, with this year’s story “Checking It Twice” as the middle installment. It occurs to me that I’m basically following the model of the original Star Wars trilogy here. Episode IV was a self-contained story that didn’t obviously require a sequel (presumably in case it didn’t do super well at the box office), whereas Episode V left lots of threads to be resolved in Episode VI.

A couple bits of news: I’m hosting this year’s AFF Halloween Party. Hoping to get some good spooky stories this year! I’ve put all my stories from Halloween Parties past into a collection titled George Glass’ Halloween Treat Bag.