<p>Corinne O&#8217;Shaughnessy • Five / Sharon Forman • Ghosts at the Costco / Cari Pattison • The Bronxville Exorcist • BTL: David Masello • A Postcard on Postcards. Read 650 celebrates writers and the spoken word five minutes &#8211; and 650 words &#8211; at a time, and on today’s show we present excerpts from a show entitled &#8220;Haunted,&#8221; featuring true stories of Premonitions, Superstitions, and Apparitions. Halloween has been around for more than a thousand years, and its origins can be traced back to an ancient Celtic festival during which it was believed that the souls of the dead returned to their homes.</p></p>

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Writers Read™ is a literary forum promoting established and emerging writers through curated live and digital performances celebrating the spoken word. It’s a high-quality platform for true personal stories—two pages and 650 words long, read aloud by the writer before an audience. Read650 places a strong emphasis on the craft of writing—word choices, sentence structures, the arc of the narrative. Our submission-based events are developed around broad themes that invite a wide range of expression. An editorial committee curates and sequences the content of each show and, where necessary, our editors collaborate with writers to further refine their work.