My friends and I skipped down the block while singing an off-key,off-beat version of ‘Thriller.’
It was Halloween and we needed LOTS of candy.I counted all the houses we’d been to and realized we’d trick-or-treatified every house in the neighborhood.
Except for Mrs.Carabi’s.
Rumors said she let children into her house then they never came out.I dared Sara to go to Mrs.Carabi’s house.’‘No way David!’’,was her response.
Sara dared Adam.
Adam dared Michele.
Michele dared me. So we agreed to all go.

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  Mrs.Carabi seemed pretty normal to me.That was until she fed us cookies filled with ground up Codeine Sulfate.
  We tugged at her door,but it was locked. Great.
  We watched in fear as Mrs.Carabi transformed into a monster I knew well from the greek myths.
  A Chimera.
  A terrifying monster with a serpent tail a lion form in the front and the form of a goat in the middle.
  My friends and I hung near the door for protection as Mrs.Carabi blew a huge conflaguration in our direction.I knew this Halloween would be my last.