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Bedtime Stories for Children: The Halloween Elf by Jackie Hosking

23 October 2011 by Jackie Hosking

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At the end of October on day thirty-one

A party takes place that is scary but fun

It’s All Hallow’s Eve, some say Halloween

Where children dress up, looking frightfully mean

 

It was one Halloween that my story takes place

I was next to the mirror and painting my face

The make-up was greenish and awfully sticky

Applying the stuff was incredibly tricky

 

I leant toward the mirror and peered at my eyes

It was then that I got an enormous surprise

The paint I’d been smearing was spreading itself

Till I was transformed from a girl to an elf

 

But not a sweet elf like the one I’d envisioned

This elf was quite wicked and I was imprisoned

Trapped in a body no longer my own

Into a nightmare I found I’d been thrown

 

I had no control of my arms or my legs

They scuttled me straight to the fridge for some eggs

One dozen, two dozen, three dozen, four

Four dozen eggs marching right out the door

 

Then up to the first house as bold as can be

That cruel, wicked elf – disguised as poor me

Knocked on the door calling out “trick or treat!”

Then flew ‘cross the road piffing eggs from the street

 

Dear Mrs Blossom was shaking and scared

She’d come to the door but she wasn’t prepared

to be showered with eggs

as she’d bought lots of treats

chocolates and candies and all sorts of sweets

 

“Meredith Jane!” she called from her porch

And she followed me right down the road with her torch

“I’d never believe it, I thought you were nice.

Next Halloween I will have to think twice!”

 

At a safe distance, we slowed to a trot

Then veered to the left to an old vacant lot

Over the fence we soon catapulted

And up to the back door the elf quickly bolted

 

“Trick or Treat! Trick or Treat!” the wicked elf curdled

Then over the back fence he instantly hurdled

And then Mr Peachtree with chocolate bars melting

Collapsed on the steps from an old fashioned pelting

 

“Meredith Jane!” he angrily scolded

“I’d never believe it,” he said with arms folded

“Next Halloween I’ll have to think twice.

‘Cause Meredith Jane, I thought you were nice!”

 

I decided right then that enough was enough

I had to be strong and had to be tough

“It’s quicker, you know, although it’s quite dark,

to follow the bike track that cuts through the park.”

And the elf in a hurry to pitch some more eggs

Took off at a gallop with both of my legs

 

Faster and faster we flew through the night

Checking to see the direction was right

I had to be sure not to make a mistake

Then we tripped and we stumbled straight into the lake

 

A funny sensation spread over my face

A slipping and sliding all over the place

A dripping and dropping and plopping of green

And that was the end of that elf’s Halloween

 

©Jackie Hosking 2011, photo by Tania McCartney

 

Bedtime Stories downloadable tales for children are an AWO initiative, run in support of the National Year of Reading 2012. We encourage you to print and read these stories with your kids, and revel in the joy a wonderful story can bring. All stories are original and have been penned by established and emerging Australian authors. Every month, we will publish four stories running to a central theme, each on a Monday morning. See here for more.

 

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