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Short stories: Halloween in 2007

Black Bats and Ouija Boards (True Story)



It was days before Halloween the year was 1968. You could just feel the creepiest in the air it was Halloween time. Being 11 years old, Halloween was still so much fun, if not more fun then the year before because I was allowed to stay out a bit later without the watchful eye of my parents. Besides back in those days we didn't have to worry too much about strangers and receiving razor blades in apples.. Basically we had the run of the neighborhood and knew everyone and looked forward to this time of the year all year long.

My father was working late this one October night. It was day light saving time as the sky grew dark early. My mother was visiting a neighbor up the street who always offered her a highball when she visited, my mother never refused an alcoholic beverage..

The woman she was visiting had just lost her husband a month before and so she drank too much then called anyone in the neighborhood and cried about her problems, my mother happened to be the lucky recipient of her call that night..
She told my sister and I she would be back in a little while, she was off to help Nancy out. We had already eaten dinner and were feeling a bit spunky with no adult supervision and were quickly bored with the house empty..

My sister Bonnie was a tom boy, always looking out for bugs, rodents, stray dogs and birds that fell out of their nest, hoping to bring them home to make as a pet. My father never let her keep anything, so they did not get along too well.
My mother was the sucker for Bonnie's impulses, she always let her keep her finds but they had to be well hidden up from my dad, because if her found them he would make her set them free and yell at her because he wasn't going to pay to feed any animal, well except his dog Peppy.

Halloween was in the air, things seemed more spooky with the sky gone dark. Peoples houses were decorated with the scary pumpkin faces on their porches or sheets hanging from on top the balcony made to look like ghosts blowing in the wind..

It was too early to settle down and watch TV, besides no one was in the house to give us directions on what to do, so being kids we decided to take full advantage of this situation and go run around out side..

My Mother was 5 doors up and so we did a sneak peek through the house she was in ,spying on her and listening to her conversation through the mail box in the door, slowly we would lift it up and could see them talking, siting on the sofa with their cocktails


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