"THE TRASH BANDIT"

2020 Halloweensie Contest
It's time once again for Susanna Hill's Halloweensie contest. (10 years and going strong!) The challenge: write a kid-friendly story of 100 words or fewer, incorporating the prompt words. This year's words are: skeleton, creep, mask. So, naturally my thoughts turned to these cute little bandits: 

​THE TRASH BANDIT
by Carrie Karnes-Fannin
 
 
Under
a thin, dark
 moon,
the masked bandit
creeps
 
(hand over hand)
 
along
a thieves’ highway
strung
 
above
 
dented and dusty
trashcans
filled
with
skeletons
of meals past.
 
Gripping the
humming, thrumming
wires,
she stops,
 
(swaying so slightly)
 
and
peeks through
frosted panes
into the
 
(strange, still)
 
wood and stone
dens
of furless
two-legged beasts.
 
 
A silent shadow,
 she takes
what’s needed,
 
and
 
washes her
bandit’s hands
of
the rest.
 
Then,
 
(unseen by
the tame, yawning
tomcat),
 
 
the
masked thief
shakes her striped tail
and
steals
back into
the
 
(singing, thriving)
 
oh-so-wild
night.
 
 
(96 words)
 
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