If the memes about Spirit letting Netherfield Park and the entire internet haven't told you, October is next month. But, like many of us, I'm always in the Halloween spirit.
Two places were most directly inspiring, one of which was something of a second lounge when I was a much more intoxicated PhD researcher. But I'll start with the more well known of the two: the Joshua Ward/George Corwin House.
Morning was muzzled by heavy fog, and it was so quiet that foxes still slunk through Earlham Cemetery. Lennie always appreciated their flickers of orange against the stark gravestones, but seeing them wasn't a given. Much like a pickpocket, they didn't prefer to be visible.