by Kelly Trickett

Created on: November 06, 2008

Talya walked along the path leading to the pumpkin patch, enjoying the fall scenery. The trees surrounding the path were decked in their finest. Gold, red, yellow, and orange leaves were gently falling to the ground, a soft rain of color. Sunflowers ran along the left-hand side of the path, towering above her head. The whole scene was just magical, and Talya was glad that she picked today to pick out her pumpkins to decorate for the front porch.

The path led for a quarter of a mile or so before reaching the pumpkin patch, and Talya took her time, strolling so as not to miss a thing. There, didn't that look like a little fairy riding that huge red leaf as if it was a surfboard? Talya's imagination was running as wild as the scenery, and she enjoyed it immensely. Looking to the left, wasn't that a brownie picking seeds out of the center of that droopy sunflower?

Talya strolled and pretended and arrived at the pumpkin patch in a very fine mood.

"Did you know that you have fairy surfers and brownie seed pickers in your forest?" Talya asked the lady at the entrance of the pumpkin patch mischievously.

"Ah, young Talya, did you think we would not?" laughed the woman, enjoying the day no less than Talya.

"Well, then, do you have any creatures in the pumpkin patch I should be looking out for?" asked Talya, laughing with delight.

"We have two sorts who love the pumpkin patch, miss. One is grand and a delight to the eyes, but very small and shy. The other, now, you best hope not to see. It's a hideous thing, it is, and likely to scare you to death if it smiles your way."

"As I need my pumpkins, and it is such a glorious day, I guess I will have to take my chances," giggled Talya.

Talya wandered through the pumpkin patch, looking for the perfect pumpkins for the carving ideas she had running around in her mind. This one was too thin, this one too squat. As she went, she pretended she could see little pumpkins sprites peeking around the vines of the pumpkins, cute as a button and small as a mouse.

Finally, Talya found her perfect pumpkins and headed back to entrance to the patch. As she approached the entrance, a voice on her right asked her, "Sure, and you'll be wanting some help with those, then? Mighty heavy they look, and you such a wee thing."

Talya turned and saw a humongous, well, thing, with what looked like weeds for hair all over it. Dropping the pumpkins and screaming, Talya ran for the entrance.

"Help, oh, help me, please! I admit I thought it was all a bit of a lark.

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