This is horrible! It’s Halloween and I’m stuck at home. I was supposed to go trick-or-treating with my younger cousins tonight. But I have been feeling out of it all day and when I got home all I wanted to do was fall into bed. So no candy, no dressing up. This really sucks.

Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. The most memorable costume I had was when I was nine and became Snow White. My mom had a dress made from a print on my Disney bed sheet. The dress had a blue bodice with blue and red cap sleeves and a full yellow skirt. I wrapped a headband with a red satin ribbon and wore it on my poufy bob of hair. I was so happy I looked just like her. Another year, I was a black cat. My candy bag was made from brown felt sewed into a shape of a mouse with yarn whiskers. Then two Halloweens ago, I dressed up as a dark fairy in a slim Gothic dress and shimmery black wings to boot. It was wickedly cool though it had some unintended effects when I attracted way too much attention from… never mind.

Tonight the costume I pieced together hangs confused in my bedroom closet. And I, fuzzy headed, exhausted, without candy, am off to bed.