today is halloween.
when i was younger this day was the anticipated bang at the end of a 3 month long fuse. decorations you made in school went up. special toys came out of that same box, like my rubber skeleton doll and this scary metal cat head with a jingley thing inside it. my sister and i both agreed it was a cursed item, and therefore fought over it constantly. household brooms would be abducted for experimental potions, usually containing spices, garden flowers, and dead flies, that would be administered in with hopes of bringing a more aerodynamic nature to it. standing at the top of our swingset at twilight starring up at the sky.