It’s over.
For another year.
Time to take down all of the fake cobwebs, fancy lanterns, candles and other decorations, and box them away.
Time to put the witch back in her cage and the bat back in its cave. No, that’s not right. The witch in the cave and the bat, the cage.
No, that’s not right either.
Where did they come from? I didn’t have them last year.
They’re very real looking.
Come to think of it, those who came with the ‘trick or treat’ group left them, with a note:
‘Take care of these. We’ll be back.’
Yesterday, Nancy mentioned a challenge on a children’s author’s blog for a one hundred word story featuring the words witch, bat, and trick or treat. I thought I would have a go at writing such a tale, but not for submission, just for the pleasure of writing. I thought I’d write something that my Inner Child would like, and instead ended up with the hundred words above. A bit sinister for a children’s story, I feel, but an ideal way to mark the end of Halloween for another year.
Yes, I know it’s only one day in reality, but here on my blog it has been a month-long event, which I have really enjoyed writing for.
I’ve created some new characters, who may pop up again, as Lady Emeralda Smart has done a couple of times over the last year. I quite like Ghastlia, so may bring her back in a tale or two. Dawn the vampire may also appear again… I’d like to see a meeting of her and Reg. And the Mystic Isle folk are bound to crop up once more… I introduced their ‘descendants’ (shall we say) in April in my tale Mystic Springs, which I had (and still do) intended to write other short stories for… Lady Emeralda also appeared in that story.
It’s fun when everything starts to link together.
It’s like fitting extra pieces into a completed jigsaw puzzle, which neither make the picture look wrong nor the pieces look out of place.
Halloween may be over, but things still go on.
Time certainly does. It’s now November. I know…
White Rabbits and all that jazz!
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