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Your neighbour has put up some halloween decorations, but you're worried about how realistic the skeletons are...
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Iâve never really seen the point in Halloween, but my new neighbours however, they go all out for it.
The put up decorations all over the house, but the skeletons, well, theyâre really something. I asked them where they got those skeletons.
âA magician never reveals theyâre secrets.â They had said and as they turned away I heard them say something else under their breath. âAnd neither do murde...
The house next to mine has skeletons in the front yard.
Donât worry their not real, at least not until dusk.
At night I see them moving, dancing and I hear them singing songs.
They keep me up at all hours of the night.
Iâve tried to tell my neighbor but he just calls me crazy.
The first time I saw it I thought I was crazy too.
They play poker around a table and throw big partyâs all thro...
This has always been a quiet suburb. The kind of place people flee to if they aspire to a Brady Bunch existence. Cul de sacs are laid out in an incomprehensible pattern designed to deter anyone without a deed or a specific invitation from entering the area.
Itâs big news here if the garbage doesnât get picked up on time, or if someoneâs cat gets out. Last month one of our neighbors decided their...
The candlelight ignites a golden aura around the dark living room. Iâm currently sitting on the warmth of my armchair, the television crackling In front of me as the rain poured down outside. My cat was curled on my lap, purring softly.
I look up as I hear a scream, and then silence. My head starts throbbing, telling me something is wrong. Even my cats fur has spiked up. She is hissing at the win...
Typically, I donât like to consider myself someone who is too quick to judge and make assumptions without getting to know a person first. Ever since me and my partner moved in, somethings always bothered me about our neighbour next door.
Sheâs a sweet older lady in her early seventies, a true Halloween fanatic. She goes all out. The first Halloween we spent here she informed us she tries to do s...
About a month and a half before Halloween we got a new neighbor. The woman is straight out of the 50âs housewife shows and the man is strange and his jokes are only funny to him. They have no children and no pets, well except for the raccoon that is always coming from their yard to get our garbage.
Halloween is a big thing in our town. There is a decorating competition and the winner gets gift c...
With Halloween on the horizon, the people on my block have begun to decorate their houses. Redâs, purples, and orangeâs lit up the street and cobwebs lined the asphalt beneath my feet.
The air was crisp and fresh, just how I liked it. I always feel that it was clearing the summerâs damp warmth from my lungs. I tend to take more walks during this season, just to get my blood pumping before the wi...
Ever since Harvey moved into the neighborhood, everyone has been on edge! People have been speculating that Harvey isnât what he appears to be. Some think heâs a vampire. Iâm inclined to believe them. Heâs never caught in daylight, always seems to have guests over at night, and has severely pale skin.
On the week of Halloween, I was even more convinced that something was off with him. Throughout...