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The Ghost of Halloween Past

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The last time I confessed that souls of the deceased were communicating with me from beyond the grave they locked me up in a psychiatric ward in Elizabeth, N.J. For almost a month they tortured me with psychotropic medications, take-downs and restraints. It’s hard to write about it, but I will, because it’s Halloween, I’m [...]

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The gang of men waited outside my room for a long time before they wandered off looking for someone else to do. I turned off the light in my room by pulling a chain of metal beads connected to a light bulb and cracked the door. Herds of bottoms paced nervously up and down the [...]

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The rooms of Mount Morris Baths are like hen houses. Chicken wire lines the ceiling and only a thin strip of plywood separates each room. It’s quite easy hearing what goes on next door. Above the wire is a dark empty space that seems to reach deep into the heavens. The area above is filled [...]

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We waited at least an hour for the Pakistani clerk at Mt. Morris Baths to check us in. We had to turn in a form of identification and at least a $5 deposit which the man behind the counter sealed inside a plastic bag. He asked us to initial the bag with a magic marker. [...]

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My roommate Anthony Owens invited me to go trick-or-treating with him on Halloween night of 2001. We put on our costume- selves and headed down to the Mt. Morris baths in Harlem. The Twin Towers were recently extinguished and we were very depressed and needed some strange. “Oh child, if you think the Rambles in [...]

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My sight-seeing adventure to the Dachau Concentration Camp was just as exciting as seeing the Berlin Wall. I’ve seen it all in life– nothing moves me anymore– even Nazi prisons didn’t phase me at 18.
A group of guys from the barracks and two soldier girls decided to take a taxi down to the Ansbach baunhauf [...]

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“Why are so many of those buildings across the street empty?” I ask my co-worker as we peer out onto Park Avenue at prime real estate which has remained vacant for well over five years now. Floors of prime office space have remained unfilled ever since I’ve worked here across the street– along the equivalent [...]

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Socks

I don’t fold my socks because I’m lazy when it comes to matching the stripes on my tubes to their partners. I match them in the morning when I’m sipping coffee, ironing clothes, doing dishes from the night before and feeding the cat. I’m not particularly concerned that I may get fired if I arrive [...]

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It may seem psychotic to claim to have had demons, but as sure as they were once cast into a herd of swine, they were in me. Legions of them once held my soul hostage.
What exorcism techniques did I use? I wish it were that simple to explain. Why should I give away my demon [...]

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