It was a dark and ghoulish night on a dead end street on the westside of Corrales. Creatures were stirring. A crowd of mostly skeletons, some crawling up out of the ground, were gathering in the graveyard for the wedding of the horribly handsome Harold and his headless bride Frieda. “They decided to get married […]
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