Barn Fright

Here is my entry to  the 3rd annual Halloweesie Contest sponsored by Susanna Leonard Hill.  The rules of the contest are simple: write a Halloween story in 100 words or less.  It can be scary or funny, poetry or prose, but it must be appropriate for children and include the words spooky, black cat, and cackle.

Barn  Fright

 When Spooky clops through the dark barn, mice scurry in front of his hooves.  His ears twitch when chickens roosting in the rafters cluck and cackle at being disturbed.  Spooky snorts at the eerie figures the moon paints on the wall.  

 Wait! What is that? 

Yellow eyes stare from the corner.

Spooky shakes his head to show his is not afraid.  But when the eyes leap toward him, Spooky bolts from the barn.

A black cat curls up in the corner.  The barn is quiet again.