Sunday, July 26, 2009

Will you read this to your children for Halloween?

A Halloween for the Tree Top Kids



By



Jackie Edwards



It was the first Halloween for the kids to know how much fun Halloween could be, not just getting candy. They got to make there own pumpkins this year, they could go to the Tree Lott alone, the only thing they could not do was make a fire by themselves. The parents of the tree lot kids played Halloween each year for the kids, this year they let the kids plan it.



They wanted to have a campfire and tell spooky story鈥檚 this year in the tree lot.



Roast hot dogs, make smores, pop corn in the wire basket over the fire. They could just see having a good time with there parents there.



So here is the first story:



It was Lester and Mary Jane鈥檚 first Halloween together and Lester really wanted to make it special for Mary Jane, who was afraid of her own shadow at least that is what she wanted Lester to believe.



As they were spending the day together on Halloween Lester broke a mirror, OH NO!! he yelled. I now will have bad juju and my soul will be trapped inside the Bizarre World for 7 years waiting renewal



He started to tell her the legend of mirrors being a trap, a trap for souls. Souls are caught in them. 鈥淕ravestones with mirrors are believed to trap the soul of the deceased at the gravesite鈥? even spookier now, 鈥渨hen the spite of the dead rise on Halloween night鈥? We need, no we must, go to the grave yard tonight before midnight and put these broken pieces on the headstones of all the graves. I must do this good deed to counter act my horrific action.



As he spoke in the spookiest quivering voice he could she clung to his arm tighter and tighter. We also should take some water for the souls that are already out of the ground so they will J U M P!! in the water instead of going into the streets of the town and reek havoc on the entire settlement. We must do this, Mary Jane, we must. For all of humanity and all that is good in this world鈥e must.



Then she whispered 鈥淲e must?鈥?br> He just looked deep into her eyes and whispered back鈥eee musttt!'.



They picked up the broken pieces with out looking into the mirror for fear of getting trapped.



They wrapped the pieces in brown paper



and put them in a brown paper sack



that had only been used once.



They dressed alike



so the ghost would not know who was real and who was a reflection.



They put on a black floppy hat to cover the top of their head



so spiders would not get in their hair.



They put on black shoes and black socks



for walking over the graves,



so the sprits they walked on would not see them.



It was fun getting dressed and trying to out spook each other.



They found the rustiest bucket they could find to put the water in,



so the moon light would not shine off it.



They checked the batteries in the flash light



under there chine.



As Lester turned it away from his face,



they were off to do their good deed,



save there town.



As they reached the grave yard Mary Jane moved closer to Lester holding firm to him with one hand and holding the bucket of water in the other. They walked past the gate and she was almost hiding herself underneath his arm. He shined the light under hes chine and looked at her...Are you scared MJ?



Walking past the headstones and statues was spooky.



She was getting a little anxious, but it was a fun anxious and she knew Lester was having an immense moment too. She looked up at him and quivered as he would say



rest in peace my friend



and place a piece of broken mirror on the gravestone.



鈥淩.I.P鈥?



Then he looked into her eyes and whispered



鈥 wonder how many souls you are holding in that bucket of water. As she looked down the water make a splash and that was all she could take鈥he bucket flew out of her hand and onto a fresh grave just ahead of her. Lester knew she did not see the piece of broken mirror on top of the grave for she flung herself out of his grasp and ran all the way back to the car.



It was a spooky time for both Mary Jane and Lester and they vowed that verry day to someday tell the story to their kids...and they just did.



(my yahoo 360 Tree Top Kids blog.)



http://360.yahoo.com/jaceroo@sbcglobal.n...



Will you read this to your children for Halloween?

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