For October, the spookiest month of the year, I thought it might be fun to represent different fears in photographs. This first one is actually a bit more sad than spooky… and something that I think we all feel at least some of the time.

Autophobia: The Fear of Being Alone
The tree was the last remaining now, even if it wasn’t much of a tree anymore. Loneliness and time had withered it away. Now, it, alone, watched the waves as they came, closer and closer, with each passing year.