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"THE JIMJAM" --A HALLOWEENSIE STORY

10/29/2021

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The 11th Annual Halloweensie Writing Contest is here!!! Susanna Hill runs several fun kidlit micro-fiction contests, and Halloweensie is no exception.

This year's essential info:
  • Write a 100-word Halloween story for kids aged 12 & under
  • Must include glow-in-the-dark, goosebumps, and goodies
  • Can be sweet, fun, or scary
  • Entries to be posted between Oct. 29th & Oct. 31st on Susanna's blog
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  • My piece squeaks in under the limit at 99 words & is a bit on the "scary" side. I enjoyed playing with a different genre from my usual. Hope you like it!
PicturePhoto credit: Enrique Meseguer from Pixabay

THE JIMJAM
by Carrie Karnes-Fannin

 
Black licorice,
two bruised apples,
a toothbrush…
 
What kind of neighborhood is this?!? 
 
“Guys! C’mon, c’mon…one more.”
 
Your friends shrug.
They peel off, their glow-in-the-dark buckets
heavy with full-sized goodies.
 
Even your goosebumps have goosebumps
in the shivery October air.
 
You trudge on.
 
Under a broken streetlight,
on a shadowed street,
the house
​waits.
 
It gives you
heebie-jeebies...the willies…
the jimjams.
 
You mutter,
“I wouldn’t live here as a ghost,” 
 
Still…
you knock.
 
It opens--
empty, wide.
 
“Oh, aren’t you a sweetie?” A nothing beckons.
“Come! We’ll fill that bag right up.”
 
No treats for you tonight--
you’re tricked.

7 Comments
Halsey, Kathy
10/29/2021 07:07:27 am

I love the idea of a meh trick-or-treat and the ending let's me use my imagination to imagine e the worse. My goosebumps have gooseumps.

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Carrie Karnes-Fannin link
10/29/2021 08:41:43 am

Thank you for stopping by & reading, Kathy! Halloween stories are such creepy fun to write.

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Carmela Simmons link
10/29/2021 10:52:38 am

Ooo! The treats really took me back to weird stuff I found in my bucket years ago. Happy Halloween, Carrie!

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Carrie Karnes-Fannin
10/29/2021 11:13:51 am

You know, I never went trick or treating as a kid. Took my daughter once, but that’s it. But I’ve heard about these random items people give as treats. LOL. I can imagine it would be a real drag to get apples or a toothbrush.

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Allison Strick
10/29/2021 12:54:05 pm

Oooo, should’ve quit while they were ahead! So spooky—well done!

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Kari Gonzalez
10/29/2021 06:26:29 pm

Ohhh, Carrie! This story gave me goosebumps on my goosebumps! Someone’s getting a treat…just not the MC! Great story!

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Carrie Karnes-Fannin
10/30/2021 05:07:47 pm

Thanks, Kari!

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