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Tuesday, October 29, 2013

HALLOWEENSIE CONTEST!!!!!

Hosted by Susanna Leonard Hill


The Contest:  write a 100 word Halloween story appropriate for children (title not included in the 100 words), using the words spookyblack cat, and cackle.  Your story can be scary, funny or anything in between, poetry or prose, but it will only count for the contest if it includes those 3 words (you can count black cat as one word) and is 100 words (you can go under, but not over!)  Get it?  Halloweensie - because it's not very long and it's for little people :)

Post your story on your blog between now and Thursday October 31st by 11:59 PM EDT.



Fly me to my Room
by Manju B. Howard

With a trick-or-treat brew of sweets
making her tummy twitch,
Gail curled up in a cozy chair
wearing the pointy hat of a witch.

“Time for bed,” her mother cackled.
But Gail hugged her black cat instead.

“To bed,” her mother crowed,
while sweeping up bits of candy.

Gail shook her head.
Spooky creatures want to find me.
They know I’m full of treats.

Orange clowns, pink bunnies and
wizards with wands will smell my feet
and think I’m something good to eat.

“Dear Mother Witch,
please take me on your broom
and fly me to my room.”

27 comments:

  1. Wizards with wands will smell my feet! Great line. Nice job, Manju!

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  2. What a great Halloween bedtime tale. Very creative and fun! Great job, Manju!

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  3. Thank you Penny and Cheryl. It was a fun challenge.

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  4. Sounds like Gail is in for belly ache nightmares, Manju! :0)

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  5. Climbing the stairway to dreamland is difficult with a tummy full of treats! that was a fun read.

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  6. I especially love your last stanza.

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  7. Thanks for your comments - Donna, Grannymar and Joanna.

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  8. Oh, what a lovely idea! To be flown to your room by broomstick to avoid any ghoulies and ghosties that might be hanging about :) Although I'm a little worried that Gail might be in for a few nightmares caused by her overindulgence in sweets :) Thanks so much for joining in the fun, Manju!

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  9. "Wizards with wands will smell my feet and think I'm something good to eat." Hilarious!!!!

    (Also, bonus points for naming her Gail. ;)

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  10. Gail, Glad I could make you laugh. Cheers!

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  11. I was humming "fly me to the moon" while reading your story! Well, till I started laughing at those smelly feet! :-)

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  12. "Fly me to my room" -- if the broom will take off after all those treats! Fun story, Manju!

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  13. This made me smile: "...will smell my feet and think I’m something good to eat". If they smelled my boys' feet, they'd move on to the next house!

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  14. Hello, Manju...nice to meet you! Susanna's contests are so much fun. Lucky little witch who gets flown up to her room on a broom.:) This was very poetic.

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  15. Loved this one. I'm sure lots of tummies will be twitching on Halloween.

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  16. It's Spook-a-lious to connect with fellow writers. Thanks for your contest, Susanna.

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  17. How scary it would be to be a treat on Halloween!

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  18. I knew I'd like your story from the moment I read the title. Nice play on words!

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  19. LOVE LOVE LOVE your title. Couldn't stop singing Sinatra's Fly Me to the Moon when I first saw it on Susanna's blog page. :) I love the stubborn little girl--sounds like a child of mine. :)

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  20. The title sent my thoughts to the rat pack. This was nice. It could be any child. I enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing.

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  21. Thanks to all of you. I'm trying to get through all your great stories.

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  22. A refreshing change to show a young witch feeling vulnerable to us scary muggles-- well done!

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  23. Love the fact that even witches have to drag their children off to bed on Halloween night. Fun twist!

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  24. Love your poem and the idea of not wanting Halloween to end.

    Happy Halloween! :)

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  25. I love the image of a tired little witch asking to be flown to her room. The Halloween version of "Carry me."

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  26. Hi Manju! So good to finally see your blog (plus photo) and connect again. I love the title of your story. . .what fun. I guess our critique group got so busy we all stopped communicating. I trust things are going well for you!

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