Halloween for Writers

Theme in Yellow

I spot the hills
with yellow balls in cornfields
Orange and tawny gold clusters

And I am called pumpkins.

On the last of October

When dusk is fallen

Children join hands

And circle round me

Singing ghost songs

And love to the harvest moon;

I am a jack-o'-lantern

With terrible teeth

And the children know

I am fooling.  

-Carl Sandburg

Halloween decorates neighborhoods and malls. Ghosts, witches,

and goblins abound at every corner. Skeletons shake in the breeze.

Pumpkin designers become more creative each season.

Write a fable or poem about a Halloween happening.

Choose a costume to describe yourself.

Imagine a cat in a artichoke costume.

Transform a carved pumpkin into a story of flight.