Nice bedtime story:
Quick bestseller underscores writers’ struggles
J.K. Rowling’s pseudonym: A bestselling writer’s fantasy
I must be cuckoo for posting this.
Also see:
The Boston Globe Tells Ghost Stories
Taliban Ghost Town
They certainly come and go like ghosts.
The Ghostwriters at MGH
The Boston Globe's Ghostwriters
Glaxo's Ghostwriters
No wonder Obamacare is a flop!
Haunted houses:
"Sex offender held in killings of 3 women in Ohio; More victims are sought" Associated Press, July 22, 2013
EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio — A 35-year-old registered sex offender was taken into custody on suspicion of killing three women whose bodies were found in East Cleveland, and police said Sunday that they were looking for more victims.
Searchers rummaging through vacant houses in the neighborhood where the three bodies were found in plastic bags should be prepared to find one or two more victims, the police chief said Sunday.
Chief Ralph Spotts told searchers combing through vacant houses in the neighborhood to look for other bags that might conceal bodies. He declined to elaborate....
Foreclosed homes now haunted.
Michael Madison, the suspect, who was arrested Friday after a police standoff, has indicated he may have been influenced by Cleveland serial killer Anthony Sowell, who was convicted in 2011 of killing 11 women and sentenced to death, Norton said.
See: Sowell's Stink
Police responding to a report of an odor coming from a house found the first body in a garage. Two other bodies were found Saturday — one in a backyard and the other in the basement of a vacant house. The bodies were found about 100 to 200 yards apart, and authorities said the victims were killed in the past six to 10 days.
The bodies were each in the fetal position, wrapped in several layers of trash bags, Norton said. He said detectives were continuing to interview the suspect, who used his mother’s address in Cleveland in registering as a sex offender, the mayor said.
Cuyahoga County medical examiner Dr. Thomas P. Gilson said Sunday that the bodies were in advanced stages of decomposition and that it would take several days to identify them and how they died.
About three dozen volunteers, including community anticrime activists, fanned out Sunday across yards, in vacant houses, and along railroad tracks to help police, who used dogs, search for more victims.
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NEXT DAY UPDATE: Man charged with murder after 3 bodies found in Ohio
Related: Sunday Globe Special: Houston's House of Horrors
"Thousands of people were allowed to return to their homes in Southern California mountain communities near Palm Springs on Sunday, after firefighters, aided by heavy rain, made substantial progress against a week-old wildfire that has burned across 42 square miles and destroyed seven homes. The fire was still far from extinguished, however. The thunderstorm that was helping douse the flames could also bring lightning, wind, and flooding, said US Forest Service spokesman John Miller."
NEXT DAY UPDATE: Mudslide threat follows Calif. blaze
Time to bed down for the night:
"New York mayor hopefuls stay at public housing" Associated Press, July 22, 2013
NEW YORK — Five Democratic candidates for mayor of New York awoke Sunday as guests in public housing apartments, where they had spent the night to get a first-hand look at problems.
Toting sleeping bags, pillows and bouquets for their hosts, the candidates — city public advocate Bill de Blasio, city comptroller John Liu, City Council speaker Christine Quinn, former comptroller Bill Thompson, and former US representative Anthony Weiner — arrived Saturday evening to bunk with different families at Lincoln Houses complex.
Local advocacy groups organized the sleepover to highlight conditions in developments run by the New York City Housing Authority. Candidates said they were troubled by what they saw.
‘‘The overall living conditions of the buildings were deplorable,’’ Liu said Sunday, though he said he had had a comfortable stay in his hosts’ meticulously kept apartment.
Of course it was! They cleaned it up special for you!
Quinn, too, said her hosts had a spotless home — except for the black mold covering their bathroom. The family, which includes an asthmatic child, called the housing authority to address the mold but do not have a sense of when that may happen, she said.
‘‘These folks are paying rent every month, working really, really hard . . . and they cannot get a response,’’ she said .
Authority representatives declined to comment. Organizers said they hoped it would inform the candidates’ thinking if one of them wins the mayor’s race this fall.
I'll bet the mayor's mansion is an upgrade.
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