These were the words from the scrabble game that I used to create this Halloween story…

faded, wiped, blur, log, it, duh, ago, far, scare, by, duet, karts, ag, me, shore, exit, chops, in, tent, howl, fell, wet, jug, day, hook, no, rust, birds, gee, river, farmer, boats, math, nope, six, even, zit, can, inch, ad, uh, go,

The Night of the Glowing Eyes

By Peggy Toolen

IT was Halloween eve about a year AGO and the sun had set and the BIRDS had all gone to roost. I sat alone on an old LOG that lay near the RIVER. My friend, Janie and I had decided we were going to go camping tonight because we thought it might be fun and kind of SCARY since it was Halloween night. So FAR it had been just a normal DAY. We drove to the campsite and then set up our TENT and EVEN did a little fishing. Neither Janie nor I liked bating the HOOKS so we just fished without bate on our HOOKS. We didn’t catch anything but it was fun anyway. My Dad let us drive his truck so we could bring his golf KART to drive around our here too. We drove the golf KART around and explored things around our camp site.

Now the DAY was FADING into night and the birds had quit singing but now the crickets chirped and frogs croaked. I turned just in time to see a big splash in the river as a big fish jumped up and back IN the water. Janie and I had been collecting sticks to make a campfire with before dark actually got here. Nothing like sitting BY a camp fire, making smores and singing camp songs and telling ghost stories, especially on Halloween night. Janie had brought some pumpkins and stuff to carve them with. We were having a great time. I headed back to the camp site and dropped my sticks in a pile and Janie did the same. We lit up our campfire and I started singing a song. Janie and I had been in choir together in school so we both loved singing and so we kind of did a DUET with our camp songs. As silly as it sounds our silly camp songs sounded pretty good as DUETS. We carved our pumpkins into SCARY looking jack-o-lanterns as we sang. After we carved our pumpkins we made smores and ate them until we were nearly sick. Then we told each other creepy stories; stories about ghosts, axe murderers, a creepy murdering FARMER who planted dead bodies in his garden for fertilizer, and other creepy things and completely freaked each other out. We drank wine out of a JUG like a couple of old hillbilly girls but it was fun.