For Story Xander Kasey Maggie Isla Aislyn Beau Laila
FO 9
ONE Halloween Night BLATCHFORD WAS SCARY any night of the year not just on Halloween It was a very old part of town with crooked streets and bad lighting Cats yowled and scrapped in the alleys Teenagers with tattoos were known to hang out under the bridges by the park In the middle of it all a huge apartment building loomed like a castle darkened with age The Blatchford Arms poked up above all the buildings around When there was a full moon it looked as though the building’s two towers were nibbling at it Some said the place was haunted October 31st while there were very few children wandering around the streets in Blatchford things were different inside the apartment building Children and a few dogs raced along the hallways The costumed kids rang doorbells and shouted Halloween apples They clattered up and down the staircases Some rode the elevator which
Quit playing with that elevator Herman Spiegelman the caretaker growled at the Lubinitsky girls There were always move-outs on the last day of the month Herman had a big job ahead of him getting Apartment 713 cleaned and ready for a new tenant Don’t you be drawing nothing on these walls He shook a mop handle at the smallest Lubinitsky who did in fact have a black crayon clutched in her free hand One mark and a monster with sharp teeth’ll come and gobble you up while you’re sleeping Three floors down the Bellini sisters tried to coax their little brother Angelo away from a basket of cookies old Mrs Floss had left on a stand outside her door No Mine he shrieked He began to jump up and down trying to grab more cookies even though his hands were already full Amanita Bellini yanked at his Dracula cape while Corrina squealed and groaned like a creature in pain rescued the basket and held it out of reach The sign says Help yourself to a cookie She tried to make herself heard over his howls That means one One cookie By this time Mrs Floss had opened her door She waved her cane at Angelo She was very old and had a creaky
