POTION FOR AN UNMASKED SKELETON

SUSANNA LEONARD HILL’S 10TH ANNUAL CONTEST!!!

                                             Photo Credit: Susanna Leonard Hill

“The Contest: write a 100 word Halloween story appropriate for children (children here defined as 12 and under) (title not included in the 100 words), using the words skeleton, creep, and mask. Your story can be scary, funny, sweet, or anything in between, poetry or prose, but it will only count for the contest if it includes those 3 words and is 100 words (you can go under, but not over!) Get it? Halloweensie – because it’s not very long and it’s for little people 🙂 (And yes, I know 100 words is short, but that’s part of the fun and the challenge! We got over 325 fantastic entries last year, so I know you can do it!) Also, you may use the words in any form – e.g. skeletons, creepy/crept, masked/unmasked, what have you 🙂 NO ILLUSTRATION NOTES PLEASE! ” 

POTION FOR AN UNMASKED SKELETON    (Word Count – 77)

Jiggle, jiggle bones and joints;
Steam rise and finger points.
Portion of a Halloween creep,
In the kettle stir and steep;
Hip of ghost and skull of bat,
Spine of witch and purr of cat,
Adam’s ribs and Mummy’s arm,
Vampire’s leg and owl’s charm,
For a creature formed with joints,
Like a trickster groans and points.

Jiggle, jiggle bones and joints;
Steam rise and finger points.
Chill in mold with gelatin,
To form an unmasked skeleton.