2025 Halloweensie Writing Contest Honorable Mention

I was thrilled to find out that my entry in Susanna Hill's Halloweensie Contest won All-Around Honorable Mention this year! The assignment was to write a Halloween kid story that contained the words "wings," "spell," and "fog" -- and it had to be 100 words or less. A very fun challenge!

THE BAD BEHAVIOR GRAVEYARD

By Sarah Hirsch

(100 words)

I hadn’t been behaving

(says Mom -- I disagree).

That’s how our Bad Behavior Graveyard came to be.

When I’d do something bad,

She’d write it on a card

And order me to bury it, deep in our backyard.

I buried “Armpit-Farting,”

“Dressing-Up the Dog,”

“Drawing Naked Bottoms in the Bathroom-Mirror Fog,”

 “Casting Meanish Spells,”

“Throwing Chicken Wings,”

“Burping Right in Grandma’s Face,” and “Laughing When Mom Sings.”

Mom adores our graveyard,

‘cause lately I behave.

She thinks my bad behavior’s disappeared in the grave.

Little does she know:

Trouble lies ahead.

It’s Halloween!  Something’s gonna rise from the dead!