So That Was Halloween

By Rajah Patpaw Purr

Spook was confused. Yesterday, his hoomins scared the living daylights out of his young kitten heart by putting peopur in the walls that jumped out at him as he walked through every door. That was just yesterday morning. Then, they hung spiderwebs in the corners, which was odd because his grandmeowie usually knocked spiderwebs down. And, as though he wasn't confused enough, they finished the whole session off by hanging his name from every wall and window the house had. Tonight, they were changing the way they looked, and the hoomin kittens danced around chanting to each other.

It was due to this confusion that Spook quietly crept through the door when no one was looking.

He hoped to find the alley normal. Full of rats. Full of kitties. Full of fun. But NO. There were more hoomin kittens chanting to each other from every street corner. They ran up and down the sidewalks, their meowmies not even bothering to control the hoodlums as they ruined the peaceful solitude of Spook's suburb.

Spook hid in a tree.

From his vantage point, Spook saw all the older hoomin kittens driving down the back roads in their shining cars. The females wore skimpy bunny outfits that seemed to make the males even more crazy than usual. They had eggs and toilet paper with them. Spooky licked his lips, wondering if they might drop an egg on the ground. Just as he was thinking of splattered egg, his tail twitched in surprise at the sickly slimy sound of a sweet egg breaking free of its shell. But this egg wasn't on the ground, it was on his hoomin's window!

Spook lept from his tree, raced across the street, jumped up to the tree branch that hung in front of the window, and started cleaning the mess up.

The teenagers didn't stay around to say hello to the hoomins, which was too bad because Spook was hoping they would leave more eggs behind them.

Once Spook had finished his egg, he lept back down to the ground and trotted along the sidewalk. As he licked his whiskers, hopes of more egg floated in his mind. He didn't notice the next door neighbor's house's transformation until he had already padded through the front gate. The whole yard had turned into heaven! All around Spook, soft clouds of toilet paper flapped in the wind.

Spook sniffed out a dropped egg and hid in his newfound heaven to enjoy the sudden insanity of hoomanity. After eating two yummy eggs, Spook couldn't do anything more than stretch out with a luxurious mew and fall fast asleep.

Spook awoke to birds chirping and the sound of hoomin kittens' teeth chattering at the bus stop. So that was Halloween...