The Ghost of October

For Experience Writing Halloween Prompt: PARTY

Did I haunt all the houses that needed haunting for Halloween?

Were there any cemeteries I forgot to visit, graves I didn’t stop and wonder at, curtains I forgot to move with my pale, skeletal hand?

Halloween almost passed by me, like a shadow that falls from a tree and lands silently at your feet.

Halloween did stop by the kitchen door, and it whispered, ‘I am here.’ Or was the sound I heard only dry leaves scurrying down the street?

Today I walked through a graveyard, and I asked the residents sleeping there: “Did you have a Happy Halloween?”

And a soft gust of wind that sounded like a sigh said, “We did.”

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