The Pumpkin
About this story
On October 30, 1983 there was a girl named Mabel. She was a shy girl, very quiet but also very curious. In the end she will find out that she shouldn’t have been so curious when curiosity bites her back…
Trick or Treat
Mable went out trick or treating, and of course for that you have to have a costume and since she had just bought a Michael Jackson costume she decided to wear it. She went to her first house and was very successful. She got a KitKat, 2 snickers and a lollipop, so she thought she was off to a good start, the only problem was that to get to the next house she had to go through a creepy pumpkin patch. Still happy with her findings from the first house she set off through the pumpkin patch only to find that was a mistake. On her way through the pumpkin patch she saw a gigantic jack o’lantern pumpkin. She decided to take a look inside of the big mouth of the jack-o-lantern to see a bright red-orange light. Suddenly she got pulled into the pumpkin and it all went black. It took what felt like ages till she woke up in her bed but everything seemed different to her. All of her photos she had hung on her walls were black and white. Mabel felt like she was going crazy so she went to her calendar to check if it was Halloween or not to make sure it was a dream, yes it was halloween but the date said 1937!. Mabel was sure she was going crazy. She tried pinching herself but it didn’t work. At this point she knew it was definitely not a dream what could Mabel do though, she couldn’t think of anything but going back to where she saw the pumpkin. After some time Mabel was able to retrace her steps back to where she saw the pumpkin but it wasn’t there just a big brown barn that had a sign that said slaughterhouse? Mabel had no idea about this considering slaughterhouses discontinued in 1940 to the point they were not really known. Mabel searched some more for the giant pumpkin but it was nowhere to be seen. Mabel decided to go look inside. Inside there was what appeared to be dried blood and a bag of animal food. She was so confused, she had gone from trick or treating to wherever she was in 1937! She tried to piece the parts together but with all that happened in the last like, 2 hours she just couldn’t. She looked at her watch and it appeared to be 10:39 pm, so she went back to the pumpkin patch and laid on a block of hay and fell asleep. In the morning she went back to the creepy barn and saw once again the slaughterhouse sign and once again walked right past it. The rush of adrenaline was unbelievable but she just kept going all the way until she was 1 step away from the door and she finally stopped. With shaking hands and a heavy heart she opened the door and saw everything that she saw the day before. Not a thing had changed, so she went in and closed the door behind her, as she rounded the corner what she saw made her heart drop. There was a strange man, he had gray hair, goggles, tan trousers and an apron and he appeared to be slaughtering a cow. Slowly and cautiously she approached the odd man, and asked him what year it was to confirm what it said on her calendar and shockingly she found out she most definitely was in the year 1937. On her way out she grabbed a knife, she had a plan. Even though she was still shocked from the discovery she thought she knew how to fix this, she took a knife that was sitting on a box outside and started carving the pumpkin. After about 2 hours went by she was done, and her plan was about to commence “5..4..3..2..” she said to herself and when she said 1 she jumped into the pumpkin and once again she felt the rush of adrenaline. It was just like before she woke up in her room again and double checked the calendar and for sure it was 1983 she went into the kitchen and saw her parents and she thought they would wonder where she was but all they did was mumble hi honey and walk away. After that life was the same, she went to school, did chores, ate and slept. After a while she even forgot that day until the next Halloween.