A Witch’s Night Out
“The demons there are whirling, and the spirits swirl about. They sing their songs to Halloween. ‘Come join the fun,” they shout. But we do not want to go there, so we run with all our might And oh we will not go inside the haunted house tonight” -Jack Prelutsky, “The Haunted House” *** What went on in that town on Halloween night was secret, and the children were never allowed to know. Parents sent their little ones to neighboring towns for trick or treating, and teens made pilgrimages elsewhere in the county for Halloween parties. No matter how willful or disobedient or downright sneaky a child might be, on Halloween they obeyed their parents’ orders and stayed away. They knew, instinctively perhaps, that this secret was not for them. It would have stayed that …