PARSIPPANY — The staff at Parsippany Focus has chosen three winners in our “Halloween Story Contest” for young readers.
The first winner is a student at Littleton Elementary School; 3rd Grade, 8 years old: Ishita Bandyopadhyay; second winner is Malak Hagag – Knollwood Elementary School; 5th Grade, 10 years old and our third winner is Maya Celli, Knollwood Elementary School; 5th Grade, 10 years old.
Malak’s story was titled:
Flair and the Other
We arrived at the Old McGrancle’s Graveyard. It was extremely terrifying. Right when I stepped in, I got chills up my spine. We heard a devastating sound. I told my sister there was nothing to be scared of, but she just ignored me. Then we heard a spine chilling laugh. I have to admit, I was a little scared. Ok, I was a lot scared, but I tried not to show it so that Flow wouldn’t get scared. All of a sudden we saw a tiny house. We thought no one was inside but I take that back. A spark of light turned on. We were too scared to find out. So instead, we started wondering around the graveyard, gazing at the monuments and statues. Suddenly I felt a tap on my shoulder. I told Flow to cut it out, but she said it wasn’t her. Same thing happened with her. She felt a tap and thought it was me, but I told her it wasn’t me. Then we heard another sound. It was a weak voice saying,”Help meeeeee!!!”. This time we got really scared …… Woah, woah, woah! I went too far. Let me introduce myself. My name is Blair and I have a sister named Flow. If you’re wondering, yes we are twins. Anyway back to the story. Me and Flow were so excited for Halloween. It was a day away. We’ve been planning for this year since we were five. Instead of going trick-or-treating, we were going to Old McGrancle’s Graveyard. We were also excited because this year we made our own costumes, and they are wicked. We’re going as soccer zombies. The day of Halloween came. We got ready for our plan. We were extremely elated. We ran to the graveyard.
Back to what I said before. We wanted to leave, but all of a sudden someone said, “Wait!”. We stopped. There was a ghost who claimed she was our sister. She also said that there was a wizard named Wizard lmblo that turned her into a ghost. Her name was Jenna. The only way she could become a human again is if we found some materials to make her a special potion. But the ingredients were impossible. They were…
• 1 tablespoon of a white cow’s milk
• 1 cup of squid ink
• 1 shark’s tooth
• 1 strand of hair from a brunette
• 1 feather from a blue jay
Some of them we could get. The strand of hair from a brunette is perfect because I am a brunette. We also found a blue jay’s feather on the ground. Luckily, we remembered that we have a squad at home because mom was going to make calamari for dinner. We also remembered that mom always buys milk from a white cow. We ran home as quick as possible. While we were there we told mom about everything that was happening. Flow then asked mom why she never told us about Jenna. Mom said, “I was worried you’d get scared.” We got the milk and found the squid, but there was no ink inside of it. But after a couple of minutes mom remembered she had squid ink in the pantry to make pasta . We ran out the door, and back to the graveyard. “But wait we’re missing the shark tooth!” I said. Thank goodness, I got Flow a shark tooth necklace for her birthday.
We were so excited to see our long lost sister. We mixed the ingredients. Then a beautiful young lady appeared upon us. Me and Flow got to know her better on our way home. Then a question popped up to my head,”Why were you turned into a ghost?”. Jenna said that there was a misunderstanding between her and Wizard lmblo. We asked her who was Wizard lmblo. Jenna said, “Wizard lmblo was the guardian of the graveyard. It was his home. So if anyone trashed it he turns them into ghosts.” Then she said that her friend knew about the whole ghost thing. So her friend tp’d the graveyard and ran away so that it looked like Jenna did it. Than Wizard lmblo appeared and thought it was Jenna that did it. Jenna tried to explain, but he just ignored me. She’s been waiting for this year so that we could save her and we did.” Thank you!!” she said. We told her that she was very welcome. When we got home mom and dad were crying tears of joy. They were so happy to see her. We all stayed up and watched a movie as a family. I also made some popcorn. Oh ya, I forgot to tell you, we found out that she was also our twin, so I guess we are triplets. Even though this Halloween started a little rough, it turned out to be the greatest day of my life.
