{"id":1539,"date":"2021-10-29T11:53:03","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T16:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/?page_id=1539"},"modified":"2021-10-29T11:53:03","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T16:53:03","slug":"halloweensie-contest-2021","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/?page_id=1539","title":{"rendered":"Halloweensie Contest 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Witchy-Jennie-FiH.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1540\" src=\"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Witchy-Jennie-FiH-300x203.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Witchy-Jennie-FiH-300x203.png 300w, http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Witchy-Jennie-FiH.png 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>One of my FAVORITE kidlit writing challenges is <a href=\"https:\/\/susannahill.com\/2021\/10\/29\/the-11the-annual-halloweensie-writing-contest-aahhhrrrooooooooo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Susanna Leonard Hill&#8217;s annual Halloweensie contest<\/a>. This year&#8217;s challenge: write a Halloween story for children in 100 words or less using some form of the words glow-in-the-dark, goosebumps, and goodies. I haven&#8217;t been writing as much lately, but I couldn&#8217;t resist participating!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>THE WITCH\u2019S MISTAKE<\/strong> by Jennifer Kaap<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">OH, GOODY, my first victim! Goosebumps prickle my warty body.<\/span><br \/>\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cTrick-or-treat!\u201d<\/span><\/i><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At last I will turn these horrid children into delightfully frightful black cats!!\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was an easy potion: dog tears, firefly butts, swamp mud, and a fingernail of salt. Looks just like king-sized chocolate bars!\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes, they all come running now. Greedy goblins!\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I stifle a cackle and wait\u2026<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But instead of feline screeches and yowls, I hear\u2026<\/span><br \/>\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWoah! Check us out! We glow-in-the-dark! Best. Halloween. EVERRRRRR!!!\u201d<\/span><\/i><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">OH, BOO! I can\u2019t believe I mixed up the sugar and salt again. Worst. Halloween. Ever. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my FAVORITE kidlit writing challenges is Susanna Leonard Hill&#8217;s annual Halloweensie contest. This year&#8217;s challenge: write a Halloween story for children in 100 words or less using some form of the words glow-in-the-dark, goosebumps, and goodies. I haven&#8217;t been writing as much lately, but I couldn&#8217;t resist participating! &nbsp; THE WITCH\u2019S MISTAKE by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1539"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1539"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1544,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1539\/revisions\/1544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}