Bad Apples

[Char]

I don't get trick or treaters where I live either. My road is very, very spooky at night. :)

[Jason]

My parents neighborhood, when I was a kid, had tons of trick or treaters. Around 2000, it started to die out, but in the last 4 or 5 years its been coming back with a vengeance. They ran out of candy last year and had to send someone to the store.

[Laurie (barksbooks)]

I just finished up The Riggle Twins. (view spoiler)[What a bizarre, horrifying little tale to start things off! I had no idea where this one was going and I loved that. Also loved the fact that we weren't spoon fed all of the answers/backstory. That glimpse of what happened to the kids? Truly terrifying. I hope to see more of their adventures. (hide spoiler)]

That's all I've got for now. You guys read too fast ;)

[Char]

Barks & Bites wrote: "I just finished up The Riggle Twins. [spoilers removed]

That's all I've got for now. You guys read too fast ;)"

B&B, I felt the EXACT same way! :)

[Laurie (barksbooks)]

Pumpkinhead Ted This one was so painful to read. (view spoiler)[It's about bullies and revenge and how hate can infect your soul and all of that horrible, true-to-life stuff. It made me so angry for that poor kid and how he had no one to stand up for him or to confide in. The end made me sad.

Anyone have any thoughts on what the deal was with Ted's mother? At one point I thought she was dead on that bed but that didn't make any sense. Was she just so deep in a depression that she never left her room?! (hide spoiler)]

[Steven]

Charlene wrote: "I don't get trick or treaters where I live either. My road is very, very spooky at night. :)"

I live in the boonies too but we do get my nieces and my nephew up the road as they are going into town for trick or treats...we hook them up with some good stuff to get them started :o) I used to live in the suburbs and I do miss the trick or treaters but hey I always have lots of left over candy :o)

[Char]

Barks & Bites wrote: "Pumpkinhead Ted This one was so painful to read. It's about bullies and revenge and how hate can infect your soul and all of that horrible, true-to-life stuff. It made me so angry for that poor kid..."

B&B (view spoiler)[ That's what I remember thinking...it was that or I thought that she was bombed out of her gourd all the time. (hide spoiler)]
It was a sad, sad story though, wasn't it?

[Char]

Steven wrote: "Charlene wrote: "I don't get trick or treaters where I live either. My road is very, very spooky at night. :)"

I live in the boonies too but we do get my nieces and my nephew up the road as they a..."

It sounds like you still have the Halloween spirit, (and the candy!), so that's cool, Steven. :)

[Steven]

Oh I will always have the Halloween spirit. So much that I keep telling my wife that Halloween gets the whole month of October now...it's not just a day anymore :o) Already watched The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown..."I got a rock." :o)

[Char]

HA! Classic!

[Robert]

Oh yeah, for sure - the whole month is devoted to ghostly and "halloweeny" things for me, including visits to hauned houses now that my kids are old enough and enjoy that kind of thing, which I always loved as a kid.

[WendyB]

Just finished Pumpkinhead Ted. I love the old-timey creepy feel to the story.
With two weeks still to go until Halloween I'm trying to eek out the stories a little at a time to last. It's not easy. The first two stories are really good.

[Katy]

Steven wrote: "Oh I will always have the Halloween spirit. So much that I keep telling my wife that Halloween gets the whole month of October now...it's not just a day anymore :o) Already watched The Great Pumpki..."

I love that Charlie Brown special.

[Kate]

Barks & Bites wrote: "Pumpkinhead Ted This one was so painful to read. It's about bullies and revenge and how hate can infect your soul and all of that horrible, true-to-life stuff. It made me so angry for that poor kid..."

(view spoiler)[The fact that he can't remember ever being around his mother made me think it was depression and that she couldn't handle what she had given birth to (hide spoiler)]

[Latasha]

Kate wrote: "Barks & Bites wrote: "Pumpkinhead Ted This one was so painful to read. It's about bullies and revenge and how hate can infect your soul and all of that horrible, true-to-life stuff. It made me so a..."

that's a good point!

[Goo]

I loved Pumpkinhead Ted and thought it was engrossing. I don't find it easy to become attached to characters in short stories, but I did feel that way about poor Ted. There was quite a bit of character development considering it was a short story.

[Steven]

Goo wrote: "I loved Pumpkinhead Ted and thought it was engrossing. I don't find it easy to become attached to characters in short stories, but I did feel that way about poor Ted. There was quite a bit of chara..."

I totally agree with you on this story .

[Char]

Agreed, Goo! Plus, who hasn't felt that way at some point in their lives? Even if we weren't picked on to that extent, most people have experienced some form of bullying in their lives. I think that makes it easy for us to picture being in Ted's shoes.

[Evans]

Kate wrote: The fact that he can't remember ever being around his mother made me think it was depression and that she couldn't handle what she had given birth to"

I think Kate wins the prize on this one!

[Kate]

Evans wrote: "Kate wrote: The fact that he can't remember ever being around his mother made me think it was depression and that she couldn't handle what she had given birth to"

I think Kate wins the prize on th..."

It was a great story. Thanks, Evans. :)