At a town hall yesterday, B&T owner and CEO Aman Kochar announced that following the termination of the ReaderLink acquisition deal, he does not see a path to keep the library wholesaler in business.

October 9, 8pm: Horror Story Read-A-Roke, West Seattle  The horror open mic for storytellers, readers, and fans of scary tales happens one more time this year on Thursday: The Read-A-Roke! Love to listen to scary tales, classic and contemporary? Want to read your own horror stories, or a favorite from your own collection? Have a true ghost story you want to share, open mic style?

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PoetryBridge's weekly event happens from 6 to 8pm at C & P Coffee (5612 California Ave SW, West Seattle) and includes an open mic. Tonight I'll be reading, as one of three featured readers, from work published in Rain Shadows, Cul de Sac Stories, and Flash of the Dead.

A peek into the October 2025 Substack... —from the Rhymes With Camera Substack, Oct 2, 2025— August brings with it the first hints of fall in the PNW… but only if you look for them. The dead leaves (usually from drought), new pumpkins on the vine, prickly blackberry vines taking over the ditches, the harbinger spiders and their webs, that feeling of slowness in one’s marrow, and that shift in the blue of the sky… they all happen even while temperatures soar.