At dusk they emerge from their homes.

They race across front lawns in a flurry of capes and crowns, stumble over tails and cowboy boots and each other, half blind in pirate patches and sheets with eye holes that don’t quite match up. 

Entire streets teem with them, fill with their sugar fueled shrieks and echo with their laughter. 

Urgent message to the inhabitants of this town; surrender your M&Ms, your Twizzlers, your Musketeers Three; loose change, apples and tooth brushes will not to be tolerated. 

Jack-o’-lanterns flicker and glow on front porches and fence posts, silent witness to the half-dozen ninjas and soldiers preparing an attack. 

A hail of eggs is unleashed on a house with the porch light turned off while toilet paper rains from the sky and streams from the trees.

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My favorite Halloween song.

I hope you enjoy it.

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