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Dread Imaginings

October is when the battle between life and death is most visible. As autumn advances, nature endures a forced decline. The living begin securing the energy and resources needed to survive the coming winter's brutal onslaught. The doomed spew speeds in the hope that some progeny can survive the freeze ahead. For those of us with memories, the dead leer at us across the gulf of time, their faces reproduced in the season's withering fruit.

Then, of course, there are less natural reminders, less natural ways of doing battle with death. As this month's featured fiction by C.C. Gardner reminds us, such attempts can be perilous . . .