Results of U-Write-It Week 256
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"October is a creepy month," Billy said. "It's full of scary things like..."
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...unemployment, jurassic seniors and the impending doom of Christmas displays at Wal-Mart."
Jane shook her head with total agreement and asked Billy, "What's your name again?"
"Name's Billy, but my friends call me Kojak. I guess they call me that because I like suckers."
Jane stared at his receeding hairline and started to get up off of her barstool, "Yes William, I'm sure that's it. Suckers." Jane did a quick 180 to ensure not making eye contact with one of the many freaks she would encounter on another lonely Saturday night.
by Dennis Springer, Waconia, MN
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...people who don't need costumes. Why I saw a woman the other day with black fingernail polish on and wasn't sure if she had dipped her fingers into black ink or wax. She was flailing those sharp daggers of hers around our office like a chef slicing a slab of meat during an infomercial. What gets me are the kids with beards who are still trick-or-treating on Halloween. Hey, speaking of creepy, I recently photographed some cemetery headstones and was sure I saw some "noise" going on. You DO know what noise means in a cemetery, right? Anyway, it was the most bizarre thing I had ever seen. When I uploaded the images onto my computer, I saw little ghosts in the background. Try telling that to anybody sane, and they'd turn heel and call you a lug nut. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha...."
by M. Cathy Helmes, USA
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...goblins, witches, and old Mrs. Snickerdoodle down the lane."
Billy continued with, "You know what they say about her?"
Sarah and her family had just moved into the neighborhood over the summer. She knew that boys her age were notorious for scaring girls. She decided to play along, "No, what do they say about her?"
"That she's a witch, of course, and whenever it's a full moon she dances naked in her back yard howling."
"Have you seen her dancing?" Sarah asked.
"No way!"
"What else do they say?" Sarah wanted to know.
Billy looked around, "That she kills birds and boils them in her cauldron."
"I thought you should know, you being new here an all, why did your family move here?"
"To be near my grandmother," Sarah said.
"Who's your Grandma?" Billy asked.
"You know her, Mrs. Snickerdoodle."
Sarah couldn t remember seeing anyone turn and run as fast as Billy.
by Ranae Cherry, Dover, PA
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...ghouls, ghosts and goblins. And sometimes the wind makes strange noises."
That was the cue for the stage hands to turn on the fans and begin whispering through bullhorns to make the tour guide prophetic.
As the hayride truck took a left toward a broken down barn which was the site of the next scare, Billy again leaned closer to the 15, 3rd-grade students, wide eyed in the back of a hay-ride.
"And of course the darker it gets the more likely we will see maaawn - sterrrrs," he held the last word a little longer to maintain the group's attention.
Little did Billy know that at the next turn the only monster he knew - the one that scared him since HE was in third grade - awaited ... ready to bring news no 17-year old could handle.
by Josh, Dallas, TX
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...monsters!"
"What do you find scary about MONSTERS?" Frankinstein asked, adding, "Some of them are quite handsome like me..."
"Yes, they all roll their eyes at me, just like you!"
"And, as I've said before, I can never understand why you don't just pick them up and roll them right back!"
by Carolyn Ann Aish, Inglewood, New Zealand
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...kids in masks and adults in masks."
"Oh, you're just jealous because you don't have to wear a mask," Carrie told him.
"Yeah, I'm not going trick-or-treating this year."
"Oh, yeah, you don't need a mask for that either."
"Shut up, Carrie."
by Phillip Lynne, Knoxville, TN
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