Susanna Leonard Hill’s 2015 Halloweensie Contest!

It’s that fun time again when sweet Susanna gives us a Halloweensie challenge. This year, as most years, we had to write a story about Halloween with only 100 words and include dark, costume and haunt among the hundred. I will be posting this here and on her website where you can go to read the others (expect to be in for some fun!) and vote for your favorite, http://susannahill.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-5th-annual-halloweensie

Here is my entry:

Prissy’s Halloween
By Linda Boyden

Prissy Crow hurried home with more pretty things…shiny foil things, dark acorn things, crinkly or quiet things; she loved them all and kept them all.
Mockingbird peered from her window. “More? If you don’t use them they’ll come to haunt you, Miss Prissy!”
Prissy frowned, but could Mockingbird be right? How could she use them?
Aha!
On Halloween Prissy knocked on Mockingbird’s door. “Trick or boo!”
“Eeek!” Mockingbird cried. “A monster? An alien?”
Prissy shook off her costume’s foil mask and stopped shaking her acorn strings. “Mockingbird, you were almost right: my things did haunt someone–YOU! Happy Halloween!”