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Saturday, 31 October 2020

Halloween, Bah Humbug!

My Halloween story, inspired by Claire Buss's Friday Flash Fiction prompt:

Brief

Here is your prompt:

It's your first Halloween as a ghost!

No more than 1,000 words


Halloween, Bah Humbug!

Whatever the Halloween equivalent of Scrooge's 'Bah, Humbug' sentiment towards Christmas is, I caught it every October when I was alive.

I couldn't see my attitude changing now that I was dead. But stranger things have happened…

Even in a pandemic, kids were going yampy for Halloween, and trusty commerce proved eager to accommodate them.

Pumpkins, witches, and bats supplanted 'Back to School' kit on supermarket shelves: orange, green and black everywhere; Halloween was afoot!

As leaves turned tan on the trees, kids collected and carved pumpkins, lighting them in their windows at night.

I so wanted to scare the bejesus out of the little brats, but no: denied by the undead authoritarians!