It’s a treat! We’re not playing a trick on you. This is a spooky competition and if you're brave enough to search for and locate the Ghost of Cattle Creek before anybody else, you will win a shoutout on the Works in Progress page of the Sopris Sun. This ghost (it’s a “he”), inhabits a property situated along Cattle Creek Road, also known as CR 113. He can be seen from the road, so snap a photo of the ghoul before October 31st, 2023 and email it to fiction@soprissun.com Photo and text by Jane Bachrach


Autumn Haiku
Photo and poem by Deborah Williams

October sedum,
Shyly silent all summer,
Blushes into bloom.

Falling
By Jampa
Carbondale

At first I think it is a small yellow bird twirling.
Then hitting the ground,
I see it is a lowly leaf finding its own grave.