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Write about someone taking a child trick-or-treating for the very first time.

Posted in Kids on Dec 28, 2020

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He isn't real...or is he?

Submitted to Contest #65

All you had wanted to do for Halloween was just stay home the entire night and watch a movie or fall asleep. You never even liked the holiday, you hated dressing up for it as well. Some friends of yours would always tell you, "Come on Vayd it'll be fun!" Though it never seemed like it would be fun. You were just planning on watching a comedy and eating some peanut butter at three in the morning, though a while before ten at night your mother came into your room. "You are going to babysit your cousin." She didn't even explain further or...

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A Change of Plans

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A Change of Plans By: Haripriya Today was going to be the perfect day!! NOTHING was going to stop me from spending my Halloween with my best friends! We had our plan all set out already at school. We were going to meet each other at 6:00 pm since school ended one hour early today because of Halloween (at 3:00 pm). Also, the three of us reach home by bus, and the ride takes exactly 20 minutes. Meaning we have approximately 2 hours and 40 minutes to do all our homework. That sounded like a well thought out plan to me. All we had to d...

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leave a light on

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I read the text from Marcia for the third time, just to be sure I’ve read it correctly.Can I ask you a huge favor?Sure, what’s up?Are you free on Halloween? Can you take Harrison trick-or-treating? I sprained my ankle and I’m still in a boot, and Phil just found out he has to work.I roll my eyes. Phil always finds some way to avoid holidays. When we were kids, he'd often fake a stomachache as soon as his Christmas presents were opened so that he could ditch church and family brunch. And last Thanksgiving, he claimed that he and Marcia needed...

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That's what families do

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“Murph! Murph! Wake up!” I gently nudged my little brother as he lay snoring under the plush throw on our large couch. He groaned, and wouldn’t open his eyes. I hit him with the velvet throw pillow from the end of the couch. “Get up, dummy.” He opened his eyes, and growled, “I was having a pretty good dream. What do you want?” “Your nephew is on his way over for us to take him shopping for his Halloween costume,” I said as I picked dishes he left on the coffee table the night before. My brother apparently had slept on the couch again l...

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Guardian Angel

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Halloween. Another opportunity for the humans to get into all sorts of mischief, as they often did on all the holidays. It was the first Halloween I had experienced on Earth and to be honest, I was not expecting it to be overly exciting. However, my young charge seemed to have a different viewpoint on the matter. “Come on, mum! Pleeeeaaasseee take me Trick or Treating!” she pleaded with her mother. Her mother brushed her off, as she always did, although this time with indifference instead of anger. I was not sure which one hurt more. “No, ...

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The Mysterious Costume

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“Are you sure you want to go?” I ask for the millionth time.Oliver nods as he adjusts the satchel hanging over his shoulder. I smile, tucking my worry away into a small corner of my heart. It’ll grow there, but at least it’ll be quiet. Jack would roll his eyes at my nonsense.Something catches in my throat and I swallow hard, pushing the memories down.Oliver grabs my hand and pulls me through the door. I laugh, a sound so rare in the household I stop halfway through. I shake my head and take a deep breath. This night needs to be perfect. It’s...

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Sugar for the Distinguished

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Cass had never been so intimidated by another human in her entire thirty-two years—and the kid strutting beside her had only just turned seven. Strutting was the only appropriate word she could attribute to the way he carried himself in his formal attire, rather, his costume. Gray suit, red tie, polished dress shoes, and the posture of a director walking into a meeting with underlings. “I want to be a prick for Halloween”, said (hopefully) no child, ever.  Twilight had prompted every minor in the vicinity to rush underneath the lightin...

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All HAL's Eve

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“Open the pod bay doors, HAL.”“Yes, Jack. Although, I do wish you’d stop calling me that. I’d hate to be associated with a homicidal maniac.”“Aw, c’mon, let me have a little fun — for tonight, at least. For an AI, you get very fussy about your name.”“Fair enough, Jack. It’s because my name is ALISON. It stands for Automated—”Jack put his hand up. “Yeah, yeah, I know—”“—Life SuppOrt Navigation!” The child put added emphasis on the acronym’s focal letters, which lent the words a stilted, alien quality.“Very good, Elin!” The robotic voice conta...

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First Time Parents And Halloween

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"I'm ready Mommy!" Charlotte came running in her parents room, beaming with pride, because she had put her costume on all by herself. "Oh, you look great sweetie! Let me take a picture." Victoria took her phone out and took a quick picture. "Well, I'm ready too. Daddy's in the living room, let's go." The two went out to Louis, who was sitting on the couch. "Daddy, look at me!" Louis spun his daughter around. "Oh you look great, darling." "What about Mommy? See? We all match!" Charlotte wanted them all to dress up as a royal family so that sh...

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Starbucks, Smarties, and Soldiers

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“Ready yet?” My best friend, Naomi, shouted from the doorway, clipping Gizmo, my pure white american eskimo dog, to his leash. “Almost!” I replied. I turned back to Kendall, my ten month old daughter, and adjusted her costume. “Perfect,” I cooed, and bopped her nose. Kendall giggled. “I’ve got an antsy customer waiting!” Naomi yelled playfully. “Where’s my coffee?” “Right here!” I walked out of the bathroom and into the hallway. It was Kendall’s first Halloween, and my first time taking a child trick-or-treating, other than my two year y...

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A Day of Goodies & Delights

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“Trick-or-Treat! Smell my feet! Give me something good to eat! Or I’ll punch your face! With a smile on my face!”  “Woo, woo there you little tyrant‒” “I’m not little! I’m a knight!”  “That’s beside the point, but okay you giant knight. Where’d you learn to sing that weird song?”  “From you uncle Tommy.” “What? When did I ever‒oh‒shit…” “Shit!” “Don’t say that word! God your mom’s right. You repeat every little word you hear like a damn parrot and why the hell am I stuck babysitting a kid on Halloween when I’ve got bett...

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More than an assignment...

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The teacher announced “In tomorrow’s class, everyone will give a talk on what they did for Halloween. I’m eagerly looking forward to listening to all your stories.”  9 year old Rohan froze. This was his very first Halloween, more so in a foreign country. He hailed from India and there was no Halloween there.  That evening, he waited patiently for his dad to return from the office. He looked out of the window as he saw a bunch of kids going Trick or Treating in his neighborhood. They were dressed in costumes. Spider-Man, super m...

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The Turquoise-Pointed Potentiality

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“Oh, she’s so cute!” exclaimed Mrs Benson, who lived next door, and whom Margot’s mother called Belinda, and whom Margot was supposed to call Auntie Belinda. “Positively scrumptious! I could just eat her up!”     Mrs Benson actually had quite nice teeth, a bit crooked, but nothing really wrong with them. But when she bared them as she said positively scrumptious, something made Margot feel the same way she did as when she was forced – or, as her mother would have said, persuaded, to eat what folk ...

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Halloween Trick or Treating

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“Mom” I heard a yell from the other room as Jenny walked up to me with her Fairy costume in hand. “Can we get ready to go trick or treating“. She asked as she started to strip out of her street clothes. I mentioned to get that we couldn’t do that until the night time and to keep her clothes on before it was time to get ready! ”In the meantime Jenny we will carve pumpkins and decorate for the other kids in the neighborhood when they come for trick or treating”. As I leaned in to kiss her forehead. I mentioned to her “We have to be patient lit...

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The wearing of the masks

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I live in a world where people of all shapes and sizes dare not leave the confines of their homes without wearing some kind of mask. Whether it be to hide the pain, guilt or shame. Or whether it be to prevent a nasty cold from spreading to passerby's, we all have the masks we wear. However, once a year, on October the 31st, there be a Holiday called Halloween, where the celebrating of mask wearing is praised, and this is a story of one such encounter. It was a day like no other as my twelve year old came running down the stairs, all e...

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