By Rachel Wolff Age 7 Second Grade, Covington School

Once on October 30th a long time ago in room 31 at Halloween Elementary School, a class that loved spookiness drew pictures of spooky characters. Frankensteins, draculas, witches, goblins, ghouls, ghosts and much more surrounded the classroom… “bringggggg” the bell rang and school was out. But, in the middle of the night, the pictures began to change! Everything bad came alive! Chairs were knocked down, desks were dented, the lockers were tipped over and zombies threw homework out the windows. Then the spooky characters went out and started to destroy the earth! There was only one thing that could stop them.

But now I need to fill you in on a little secret that few people know. Living back then was a three year old girl named “Lucy”. She was wearing a princess costume and eating candy. The spooky characters came running by. They looked at Lucy. The spooky characters didn’t like looking at her because it made them realize that anyone could dress up like them and be mistaken for a bad guy. The spooky characters didn’t like candy because it was sweet (and we all know they only like sour food). Suddenly all the spooky characters shriveled up and returned to the classroom as the paper drawings they started out as.

So, every year on October 31, the spooky characters come alive again. But because humans are clever and wear costumes and eat candy, the spooky characters disappear as suddenly as they try to appear. And that is my tale.