Halloweensie: WARNING: MAY CONTAIN SUGAR

Thank you to Susanna Leonard Hill for another fantastic contest!

You can read all the entries on her blog.

This year’s rules: Halloween story for kids, using the words glow-in-the-dark, goodies, and goosebumps–in 100 words or less!

WARNING: MAY CONTAIN SUGAR
By Amy Leskowski
92 words

A wander the wrong way allowed me to witness
what wee wads of sweets do to witches:
Goodies give Gwendolyn greenish-gray gums.
Imogene instantly itches.

Hilda heaves hard, hurling harmonized hiccups.
Bellatrix barks between blinks.
Griselda gets goosebumps that glow-in-the-dark.
Sherilynn shivers, then shrinks.

Bronwyn blows bubbles beneath burp-y breaths.
Sage suffers snail-spewing sneezes.
Yoselin yawns year-long yo-yoing yodels.
Winifred’s wart weeps and wheezes.

Marnie’s mole morphs into multiple masses.
Tina’s tongue thickens, then twitches.
So if sugary samples should spill from my sack,
I’ve vowed I will warn all the witches.

2 thoughts on “Halloweensie: WARNING: MAY CONTAIN SUGAR

  1. Brilliant, Amy. I love this! Your all-star alliteration is amazingly awesome. Look out, Shel Silverstein!

    1. Aww, thank you, Becky! I definitely love Shel’s work and love, love, love being in the same sentence as him! Thank you! Love your alliteration sentence 🙂 Thank you!!!

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