Mystery Monday #8

Happy Halloween, everyone! You're probably already in a spooky mood—or is that just your blood sugar crashing after eating too many Three Musketeers bars?(You just couldn't wait, could you?)

Well, now, let's put that inner Vincent Price voice to work on a writing exercise, shall we? Write a paragraph starting from one of the following premises:

a) There's an escaped convict amongst us, and he's trick-or-treating (you pick the costume!)...

b) At a Halloween party, one guest goes missing...

c) In her trick-or-treat bag a girl finds an unusual package she doesn't remember picking up...

d) Two boys are out combing the neighborhood for candy and they stumble on a small group of people at the cemetery, performing a strange ritual...

Good luck and best wishes for a scary and delicious Halloween.

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Elisa Ludwig's debut young adult novel PRETTY CROOKED (Katherine Tegen/HarperCollins), will be released in March 2012. Her favorite Halloween costume of all time was the girl from the Hello video (replete with paper mache bust of Lionel Richie). But this year she will probably just be going as a writer. Elisa lives in Philadelphia with her husband Jesse and cat Beau a.k.a. Bread. When she's not writing for teens, she's cooking and/or writing about food for The Philadelphia Inquirer and other publications. Elisa is a proud member of The Apocalypsies.