Halloween Tricks

For tomorrow, come on back with a tale of up to 1,500 words concerning either


A CLOUD


or


A WAVE


or both. Use them literally, figuratively, however you please. Any entry using one of the prompts gets a 1,000-GP bonus; double that for using both. Either way, you'll also get a review from me,

Halloween Tricks

     “Are you ready for some trick and tricking? I sure am,” said the witch.

     “I love this time of year,” said the ghost. “It’s the only time we can be ourselves.”

     “Let’s go,” said the skeleton. “The sooner we get started the more tricks we will get.”

     After adjusting her clothing the witch, the skeleton, and the ghost walked or floated out of her bedroom. They went downstairs saying goodbye to her parents as they left that house.

     The street was already busy with trick-or-treaters. Just after they exited through a creaking rusted gate one trick-or-treaters bumped into the skeleton. He fell to pieces, literally. The skeleton bounced back up to himself a few seconds later. “Did anyone see me fall down?”

     “I don’t think so,” said the ghost. “Why?”

     “This day isn’t to scare children. Even though some of them do need to be scared a little. Some a lot. We are here to scare the adults. Especially the ones who don’t give out any candy.”

     The three friends started looking up and down that street. “There are several houses on this street that have their lights out.” Said the witch.

     “I still think we should go to your neighborhood,” the skeleton said to the ghost. “Most of your neighbors are rich people who should be giving out to candy, but they don’t because they are rich.”

     “Let’s hit these houses first then we can go to mine,” said the ghost.” “We have all night. Besides, it better to scare them in the middle of the night.”

     “Too bad We can’t go to your neighborhood too,” the witch said to the skeleton. “We would, but there aren’t any houses there.”

     “We have a lot of dark houses,” said the skeleton. “Only we can’t scare them to death because they are already dead.”

     “Let’s go to that house first,” said the witch. She pointed at a house across the street a couple of houses down. “The man who lives there is very mean to children.”

     The three friends went up to that house and the ghost knocked on the door. His hand went right through it. “You know you can’t do that,” said the skeleton. “Let us do that.” The skeleton knocked on the door.

     About a minute later a man answered it. “WHAT DO YOU WANT? DIDN’T YOU SEE I DIDN’T HAVE MY LIGHTS ON. I DON’T HAVE ANY CANDY. NEVER DID.” The man slammed the door in their faces.

     A wave of the hand across her face brought a scream from the man. “WHAT HAPPENED TO MY EYES. I'M BLIND.”

     The three friends laughed hysterically as they left that house. “What about that house?” the ghost asked pointing at the house next to the witch house.

     “No, not that one. The lady who lives there is very poor. She has trouble feeding herself. We give her food all the time. Luckily, she never asked where it came from.” The witch pointed to another house. “That one.”

     As the three friends approached that house four trick-or-treaters almost went up to it. One of them pointed to the light by the door. They left. The three friends did go up there and the witch knocked on the door.

     A few seconds later the door opened and an overweight woman stood there. “What do you want? I don’t have any candy left. That’s why I turned off my light.”

     “I know you had candy,” said the witch. “You still would if you didn’t eat it all yourself.”

     “How dare you talk to me like that. What is your name? I'm going to tell you parents how rude you were to me.”

     “My name is Victoria and I live down there.” Victoria pointed to her house. “These are my friends Max and Randy.” She gestured toward the skeleton and the ghost respectively.

     “I don’t care who they are. You were the one that was rude to me.”

     “We can be rude to you too if you want us to,” said Randy. “What do we have to say to get you to call us rude too?”

     The overweight woman huffed and puffed then also slammed the door in their faces. As the three friends, left Victoria coughed. Gray smoke came out of her fist. “She not going to be able to talk to anyone ever again. I'd like to see her eat now.”

     As the three friends headed for the next house Max looked up toward the sky. He stopped and started laughing. “Look at that cloud. A cloud that looks just like you Victoria.”

     Victoria and Randy looked up too and started laughing. “You’re right. It does look exactly like me.

     Four more lightless houses got hit on that street. They all had similar ‘accidents' happen to them. One lost his leg. He threatened to kick us off his property. Another one couldn’t stop laughing. He laughed at us for having stupid costumes. When we told him they weren’t costumes he laughed even harder. Now who’s laughing at who? One couldn’t stop passing gas. That’s because she did it in front of us but didn’t apologize for it. The last one lost both her arms. She kept throwing candy at them even after she said she didn’t have anymore, and she used both hands to do it.

     “That’s the cat lady,” said Victoria. “She’s not too bad compared to the others on this street, but she would rather give food to her cats than candy to children one day a year. She has about fifty cats living with her everyone thinks.”

     Victoria pulls her palms out in front of her to reveal a slightly moving black hairy rope. It disappeared when she slapped her hands together. “There’s about to be one more cat in that house.” She gestures her friends to follow her and they go to an open window just in time to see a tail appear on the cat lady. A few seconds later she transformed into a cat.

     They had six more streets in that neighborhood. Then they headed for the neighborhood where Randy lived. He had ten streets in his neighborhood. Not as many houses per street, but more lightless ones. Overall, they must have played tricks on at least two hundred people that night.


Both Prompts
Word Count - 1,049