Ron the Yarnspinner

                                                                 Fatal Attraction   Studies reveal an uncomfortable truth: humans are among the smelliest creatures on earth — and your scent can prove deadly.   The pungent odor rising from adult human skin is unusual in the animal kingdom. Unlike most mammals, we emit scent from nearly every inch of our bodies. Add to that the billions of microorganisms living on our skin, each busily metabolizing sweat and skin compounds into airborne chemicals, and you have a remarkably complex bouquet.   That distinctive human odor turns out to be a beacon for mosquitoes — arguably the deadliest animals on the planet. Scientists are still sorting out precisely which elements of human sweat make us so irresistible, but one thing is clear: our scent sets us apart f...

  The Boogeyman     The room is dark. It’s the middle of the night, and beneath the blanket, completely hidden from the world, a five-year-old girl lies still in her bed. She’s alone—or at least, she’s supposed to be. But in her mind, something else lingers. Her fear grows slowly, too big for her small body to hold. It   presses in quietly from every direction, like the air before a storm: thick, waiting, impossible to breathe. Moonlight slips through the curtains, soft and silver, turning her dolls and furniture into strange, shifting shapes. The once-familiar room seems strange. It’s a place of shadows and blurred edges. She pulls the blanket over her head and sits up, curling beneath it like a hidden creature. In the dark, the blanket becomes a tent, a shroud, a ghost. Maybe—just maybe—it will be enough to frighten him away: the Boogeyman. It starts with the fear of the unknown - that unsettling feeling when darkness hides the details, and the mind scram...