Moonlit Night - A Halloweensie Story

Halloween is here! It is my favorite holiday of the year. I enjoy all the encouragement to play in imagination.

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And what a better way to do that then through story. Thankfully, Susanna has put together a little contest for us.

Here's the rules:
- write a 100 word Halloween story appropriate for children 
- use the words pumpkin, broomstick, and creak.   

That's it! Try it. It's harder then you think. I wrote about 4 different stories before I finally got to this one. I like the slightly ambiguous nature of this story. Here it is:



Moonlit Night
by Sarah Maynard

Past the creepily bumpy pumpkins, 
through the eerily creaky door,
down the bone-chillingly drafty hallway
sits a seemingly empty room.

In the seemingly empty room, 
near the surely haunted chair,
by the clearly dusty window,
waits a mysteriously glowing something.

The mysteriously glowing something, 
chews the magically flying broomstick, 
chases the curiously talking cat,
barks at a spookily quiet someone.

This spookily quiet someone
pets the mysteriously glowing something,
fixes the badly chewed broomstick, 
attaches an awkwardly shaped sidecar.

In the awkwardly shaped sidecar,
jumps the mysteriously glowing something,
next to the spookily quiet someone,

flying toward the moon.

Exactly 100 words. Phew!

Check out all of the other amazing entries on Susanna's blog here.  I just checked before I posted and there are almost 100 entries! Wow!

You have until 11:59 EST on October 31st to get your story out there. Get to spooking! 

Happy Halloween!