The Glimmer Falls Gazette - October 2022

Dear reader,

Happy spooky season! It’s time for the monthly update from The Glimmer Falls Gazette, a publication detailing events going on in the small town A WITCH’S GUIDE TO FAKE DATING A DEMON is set in!

In this edition:

-The Glimmer Falls Autumn Festival! (A key plot point in book 1)
-Mysterious prophecies from the corn (perhaps hinting at future books??)
-Gibbering horrors deserve love, too!

Read on for the good gossip…

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The Glimmer Falls Gazette. Issue 10, October 2022.

In This Issue side headlines: The Best Fest! The Mysterious Corn Maze. Ask Sphinxie.

First page: [Image of someone carving a pumpkin at a table with candles and a basket of gourds]

The Best Fest! by Ransom Thibodeaux.

It's October at last, which means the Glimmer Falls Autumn Festival! Thousands of tourists have joined us to celebrate this year. There's a magic display on every street corner, and pumpkin spice abounds. Here are a few highlights to look forward to:

Baking competitions: Get ready for levitating pies, magical aphrodisiacs, and more!

Performance artists: There's a troupe of jugglers flinging knives and bowling balls outside my window at this very moment. Wait... was that a levitating cat??

The Magical Melee: Ever seen a bunch of nude, hallucinating witches try to turn each other into newts? Grab some magic mushrooms, dust off your old grudges, and let's get freaky!

The Pacific Northwest Floral Championships: These flower displays have to be seen to be believed. Local witch Mariel Spark is gunning for Best in Show this year, and rumor has it one of her flowers actually emits flames!

Happy Spooky Season, folks!

Second Page: [Image of a twisting corn maze taken from the air]

The Mysterious Corn Maze. by Artemis Crumpet.

Overnight, a corn maze appeared outside the museum. No one knows where it came from, but the ominous wailing from within and periodic puffs of colorful smoke are intriguing. Anyone who enters comes out looking dazed, and strange prophecies spill from their tongues. So far I've been given a trilogy of strange predictions:
"Book 1: A behorned visitor from afar."
"Book 2: A cacophony of explosions."
"Book 3: Blood-soaked performance art from an immortal assassin."
Feeling brave? Have a wander through the stalks...

Ask Sphinxie.

Dear Sphinxie,
As an unspeakable eldritch creature, October is my favorite month. I can walk the streets in all my shrieking, unfathomable glory, and people assume it’s a costume. Recently I met the perfect man, and we had an amazing conversation. He asked me to dinner in November, but I’m worried he won’t like me once he realizes all my… appendages… are permanent. What should I do??
-Any Advice At Acting Appealing?

Dear AAAAA,
Some costumes are more obvious than others, but we all wear a mask to protect the fragile, lonely creature within. Love comes not from showing our surface, but baring that vulnerable inner self.
Give it a chance. Gibbering horrors deserve love, too, and no person is perfect - but this one may just be perfect for you.