STORYTIME TAPESTRY

The Newsletter devoted to spreading love and cultural awareness throughout the world

? 

Halloween Contest

? 

Oct 30, 2005? 

? 

? Subscriber

Today??™s Announcements:

? 

? The contest continues.?  Deadline to enter submissions remains Oct 30^th.?  Nothing will be accepted after that date.?  Time is running out to get in your submissions.

? 

The membership will vote according to their favourite writer.?  Each day the entries of what has been published to date will be posted at the beginning of the newsletter and the list will grow daily as the submissions increase.?  Voting will be held after the contest ends.?  The contest ends when there are no more submissions.? 

? 

All members can access the archives of Storytime Tapestry? ? ? http://archives.zinester.com/98907? ? ? ?  to reread an entry before voting if need be.?  If you have any problems please contact me at: winterose@videotron.ca

? 

Contest winner will get a copy of my new book, Angels Watching Over Me upon release.

? 

? 

Now on to the good stuff..........

? 

Submissions for the contest to date: If you do not see your name here, it means you piece has not been published yet. Each day new names are adding as the pieces are published.

? 

Name? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  Title? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  ? ?  ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  Date

Sharon Bryant? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  Halloween Cupcakes? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  ? ? ? ? ?  ? ? ? ? ?  Oct 25

Sharon Bryant? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  Pay Attention To Your Dreams? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  Oct 25

Sharon Bryant? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  The Coke Glass?  ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  Oct 25

Sharon Bryant? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  The Fire Wall? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  Oct 25

Sharif Khan? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  The Witch Doctor? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  Oct 26

Barbara Deming? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  A Stranger At the Foot of My Bed ?  Oct 27

Barbara Deming? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  Houses Of The Living Dead ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  Oct 27

Barbara Deming? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  The Cemetery March ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  Oct 27

Debra Shiveley? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  The Haunted House? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  Oct 27

Pam Patterson? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  Trapped? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  Oct 28

Mary-Ellen Grisham? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  The Heavenly side of Ghost-ly? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  Oct 28

Lynne Stevenson? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  The Aurora Borealis ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  Oct 28

Lynne Stevenson? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  Halloween In Gastonia? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  Oct 28

Surinder Jandu? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  The Journey of Soul? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  Oct 29

Surinder Jandu? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  Power of Prayer? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  Oct 29

Martha Jette? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  Michele Grew Up With Spirit ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  Oct 29

Martha Jette? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  Haunted Pub? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  Oct 29

Norma Liles? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  Who Celebrates Halloween? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  Oct 29

Barbara Weymouth? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  Lost Horizons on

Fred Skill? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  My Best Halloween Costume? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  Oct 30

Richard Sims? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  The Real Story Of Halloween? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  Oct 30

Dianna Doles Petry? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  It??™s Halloween? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  Oct 30

Norma Liles? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  Who is the Hoot? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  Oct 30

Norma Liles? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  The Haunting ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  Oct 30

? 

Halloween Contest Submissions

? 

?©Lost Horizons on

Barbara Weymouth

? 

One day I went for a walk in my neighborhood where I have lived for years.?  I was walking on

? 

I think I was in shock as I just kept walking in anxious anticipation for something that looked familiar.?  The houses didn??™t look familiar and none of the people did either.?  I thought surely I would come upon my friend Kathy??™s house soon, as I always had in the past; but no, her house was not there either.?  I just kept walking in a fog feeling like an alien in my own neighborhood.

? 

Finally I got to the end of what I thought was

? 

Well I thought if I just keep walking??¦?  I just have to find my way back to

? 

I started down Sycamore and started looking for my friend??™s houses, because Sycamore was just one block from Parchment where my home was.?  I was so elated that I could hardly contain myself.?  I looked to my left and I looked to my right and just as before I could see nothing that looked like it should.?  My heart began to beat faster and faster and I felt my pulse racing and beads of perspiration began to run down my face.?  I could not take this madness anymore!?  How could I just leave my home like I always did and? step into another world??  I began to walk faster and faster I just knew I had to get to the end of the block.

? 

Well I finally got to the end of Sycamore and with great hesitation slowly turned to my right, as this should be my street,

? 

I thought I saw my friend Sarah??™s blue Corvette in the driveway and I got excited.?  I began to walk faster and faster.?  I knew if that was Sarah??™s Blue Corvette that I would be safe and she would help me find my way back home.

? ? 

I walked onto her driveway and sure enough it was Sarah??™s car or was it??  I ran up to knock on the door and a lady I had never seen before answered the door.?  I said, "Hi, I??™m Angie is Sarah home"??  And the lady said you must be mistaken Sarah passed away twenty years ago.?  I felt my face grow pale and there was a great sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach.? 

? 

I told the lady that I had grown up with Sarah and we were best friends.?  The lady said, ???Sarah was my Grandmother???.?  Now I was truly in shock and horror.?  The lady asked me again what my name was and I said, Angela White.?  The lady??™s face grew pale and she said, ???It can??™t be, Angela White was killed in a car accident with Grandma Sarah twenty years ago???.?  I was filled with shock and disbelief.?  She said, ???Come with me and we??™ll walk down to the cemetery and I will show you; they are buried side by side.?  But wait a minute isn??™t that Sarah??™s blue corvette in your driveway??  The lady said, ???My Momma always said my grandmother always loved? corvettes and for my 40^th birthday, I bought myself one, blue, just like Grandma, it??™s a classic!

? 

With total amazement and bewilderment I walked with Sarah??™s granddaughter to the cemetery.?  When we got there she led me over to where Sarah and Angela??™s graves were.?  I could not believe my eyes when I saw my name and my birth date on one of the headstones. I felt my knees grow weak and I collapsed onto the ground beside the graves.?  I fell into a deep slumber.?  When I woke up and looked around rays of sunshine were shining through the treetops.?  I rubbed my eyes and I stood up and I began to look all around.?  Suddenly I saw Sarah at a distance and she was calling my name, ???Angela, Angela, where are you?????  I was so happy to see her, I called?  ???I??™m over here Sarah??? She came running over to me.?  She put her arms around me and gave me the biggest hug ever.? 

? 

I said, ???Sarah, where are we?????  Sarah said, ???Don??™t you remember we were driving to the country club and my car veered off the road when I was trying to avoid an oncoming car, I couldn??™t turn fast enough and the car hit us head-on we both died that night on the highway. ? I got that sick feeling in the pit of my stomach again and the memories of that tragic night came rushing back to me.?  Warm, salty tears began to stream down my face and I said, ???Sarah, I do remember the angels coming and taking us to heaven that night, but what are we doing here now?????  Sarah said, ???Somehow I had traveled in my spiritual body back to earth and came back to our old neighborhood???.?  The lady that brought you here was my granddaughter, Katrina, I have never met her before; she brought you back here to find me???.?  Now take my hand and lets find our way back to heaven.?  You know Angie until tonight I had only watched my granddaughter from afar, "Katrina" what a pretty name!? 

? 

You know, Angie ???God gave us both special blessings tonight; you always did love the old neighborhood and I was secretly longing to see my granddaughter face to face.? ?  I think we can both rest in the peace of heaven now.?  Has it already been twenty years, it seems just like a day.? 

? 

?©Copyright, Barbara J. Ervin-Weymouth, October 22, 2005, ?®All Rights Reserved

? 

My name is Barbara J. Ervin-Weymouth; I was born and raised and still reside in the Sacramento Valley of California.?  I am a Christian and a proud mother of one son, Eric who is married to my daughter-in-law Dawn, together they have given me two beautiful gifts from God, I call my grandchildren.? 

? 

I have one very spoiled Staffordshire Terrier, Rosie, who doesn't know she's a dog, shhh!?  I have worked in public education for 27 years.?  After 22 of them I decided to become an Adult Education Teacher.?  It has been the realization of a life long dream. I have been substitute Teaching for the past five years.?  I??™m still praying for a classroom and students of my own.?  The Lord had another plan,

I am now working as an Office Administrator for Placer Hills Church; I am truly blessed beyond measure to be able to work in our Lord??™s service.? 

Email:?  Weymouth@cwnet.com

? 

I am published on the following E-Sites:

? 

Storytime Tapestry

Starfish (ripplemaker.com)

SFPNN

Hearts With Soul

Pearlsoup.com

Women With Heart

Poetry.com

? 

? 

~**~**~

My Best Halloween Costume

Fred Skill

? 

My best Halloween costume was when I was a senior in high school.?  I was invited to a Halloween party on the Saturday night about five days before Halloween.?  I decided to go as the invisible man, so I dressed up in a black suite with a white shirt and a red tie.?  I wore black gloves and wrapped my head with an ace bandage.?  I had blacken the area around my eyes and mouth and arranged it so there was just a single fold over my mouth so a straw would fit for the anticipated adult beverage, dawned the dark glasses and the black bowler hat at a racy angle and started to go to the party.?  I borrowed the family car a Buick Century as my custom Mercury was a dead give away and people weren??™t supposed to know who you were until the masks came off.? 

? 

I left to go to the party and noticed that I needed gas and so I stopped at a gas station on the way to the party.?  This is where I discovered how effective the costume looked.? ?  As you know when you are wearing something you forget how you look as you don??™t see yourself and it is through the reaction of others that you remember what you are wearing.?  Women with a low cut dress probably can relate to that statement.?  Well I pulled into this gas station and rolled down the window (this is the time that they were service stations and they really gave service) a young man came to the window and asked me if I wanted to fill her up with ethyl.?  When I turned from looking at the gas gauge and told him to put in three dollars worth of regular, he gasp, yes sir!?  He put the gas in the car and checked the oil and was washing the windshield and staring at me as he did it and I couldn??™t stop myself from wondering if that is the view that a pretty female receives as she gets her windshield washed, but of course she is used to it and I??™m sure the expression on the attendant would be different.?  He was staring at me like I was a burn victim or something.

? 

When I got to the party I received a lot of attention and a lot of people wanted to talk to me but I wouldn??™t say anything as I didn??™t want to give my identity away so while there were a few that wore masks that hid there identity I was the only one that toward the end of the night that was still a complete stranger to everyone.?  I won the prize for the best costume and was asked to unmask.? 

? 

I didn??™t take the mask off but I announced who I was and a lot people were surprised.?  I learned from a lot from the party members they told me they couldn??™t get used to me in that masked state and they acted differently toward me even when they knew who I was, it was an interesting experience to be treated differently because of my looks.?  They stated that because they couldn??™t read my face it made having a discussion with me very strange.?  I never forgot that feeling and tried to learn a lesson from it to not react judgmentally by how a person looks as the person receives a message by your reaction.? 

? 

? 

Fred Skillfskill @ shasta. com
About Me:
Hi, I'm Fred Skill, I was born in Ventura,CA, unlike most of you that were born at avery early age, I was fifteen when I wasborn because we were poor and somebody hadto go to work right away! We were so poorthat we used to get care packages fromKorea. The funny part was at the time wedidn't know we were poor because wedidn't lack for anything.I worked for the Scripps Newspaper divisionstarting in 1961 through July, 2002 when Iretired. I don't know if you could call it40 years of experience or one yearsexperience repeated 40 times. Iworked at five different newspapers forthe company and as everything from anadvertising salesman to a publisher. Iwon't go into a run down of my career butthe newspapers were all in California andthelast one was the Record Searchlight inRedding, CA.I am very married to my first wife Carol,and as she puts it also my last wife. Wehave two children a boy and a girl, bothgrown and on their own.My hobbies are computers and `that's agood thing' because I'm the leader for aComputer Users Group. My other interestsinclude wood working, handguns, coins,writing stories and "Honey Do" projects.My wife has a unique way to get me to do aproject. After mentioning it a few times,she will wait until I'm not particularlybusy and ask me where such and such toolis located. I invariably ask, "What doyou need that for?" "Oh, I'm going to(fill in the blank)." Right after I finishthe project it dawns on me that I havebeen had again,but in such a pleasant waythat I don't really mind. And theinteresting thing is she is quite capableof doing whatever job she wants to doherself.I enjoy writing and as Carol passes thecomputer room she will hear me chucklingand know that I at it again. You see whenI write I tickle myself and it isdifficult to write and kiss the back ofyour hand at the same time, but I do finda way. Most of my writings are letters tomy brother-in-law about the daily thingsthat happen and to make them interesting Ido try to add a little humor, I hope youfind them interesting.

? 

~**~**~

The Real Story Of Halloween

Richard Sims

? 

Most of the stories that you have heard about Halloween are just made up through

the years to impress our children and keep them from being scared to death on

Halloween night, but now you are going to hear the real story of Halloween.

? 

Every year on the 31st of Oct. is what is known as the night of the living dead, the night? 

the gates of hell are opened to release all of the evil spirits to walk the earth in search

of a body to host their lost spirits.?  The spirits roam the earth from dusk on Halloween

night to midnight, after midnight they are forced back through the gates of hell unless

they have found a body.

? 

It is believed that you must dress up in a very fright full? costume on Halloween night to

scare the evil spirits away, to keep them from inhabiting your body on this very gloomy

and scary night. The part about passing out candy at all of the door steps on Halloween

night is to reward the good spirits for their part in scaring away all of the evil spirits.

? 

On the night of Oct. 31st. when your door bell rings and you hear those little voices

scream out trick or treat reward them handsomely with all kinds of goodies, remember

to call them my little purities and don't let them see that wart on your nose. Wishing

you all a ghostly Halloween!!!

? 

About Me

? 

I am Richard D. Sims 48 years old, I was born in a small town called Granby, the oldest

mining town is Southwest Missouri. I am the youngest out of five children ( The Brat )

I am just a simple back woods country boy, I wear Dan post western style boots and

western shirts, wrangler jeans and my black western hat. I am a jack of all trades yet

a master of none, I have found out I can do most anything and what I can't do? I am willing

to learn.

? 

I moved here to Arma, Kansas 3 years ago when? I married my lovely wife Jackie, I have

two children of my own, Richard II ( Rick ) Sims 26 years old, and a daughter Rebecka

Sissom age 22. A stepson James Morrison 26 who lives with Jackie and I because of his

birth defect of Spina - Bifida.

? 

We have found a great church here called the Arma Family Christian Center, My wife

Jackie and I are online prayer warriors so if you have a prayer request just send it to us

to receive a written prayer, please make sure you don't have your E - mail blocked.

? 

My hobbies are building quarter mile dragsters and drag racing at Asberry, Mo. at

Mo-kan dragway. I also do wood working and wood crafts, Bow hunting and fishing,

motorcycling, and just spending quality time with my family and spoiling my

granddaughter Destiny Dawn Sims age 5.

? 

Richard Dean Sims? ? ?  armaksman@yahoo.com

? 

? 

~**~**~

? 

It??™s Halloween

Dianna Doles Petry

? 

Ghosts and goblins rule the night,

When people close their eyes to sleep.

Gremlins taunt and witches tease,

Rules aren't made for them to keep.

? 

You can run but you can't hide from them,

Your evasive moves are all in vain.

They mingle with children seeking treats,

They're free to roam the streets again!

? 

Shrieks and moans fill the dark of night,

Do we dare to believe this could be true?

Don't take for granted that it's only a mask,

It might be the Reaper? waiting for you!

? 

Dianna Doles Petry

Dianna59@charter.net

7/20/2005

Proud founder of:
Women With A Unique Soul
www.womenwithauniquesoul.com
Webmaster of Short Stories
http://diannapetry.tripod.com
Webmaster of Poetry From Life
http://www.geocities.com/diannawv/
Poems By Dianna
http://members.tripod.com/~poemsbydianna/PoetryofLife.html

? 

~**~**~

Who is the Hoot

Norma Liles
? 
?  Who is the hoot the owl cries
?  You know the Who the Who who hoots
?  Hoots and hollers screams and cries
?  My nerves are a wreck, I think I'll hide.
? 
?  Bones a creakin' do you hear?
?  Hear them rattle, hear them click
?  Sounds like drums inside your head
?  Gosh all mighty, whose under the bed?

?  Ghosts and goblins fill the air
?  Spider's webs drip across the trees
?  Witches are flying across the dark skies
?  Their cauldrons are full of snakes & snails.
? 
?  This is the night that the ghosts come alive
?  This is the night when Paul Revere rides
?  Headless women roam through the woods
?  Hey everyone, IT'S HALLOWEEN NIGHT!
? 
?  Norma Liles

? 

~**~**~

? 

?·? ? ? ? ? ? ?  The Haunting *

Norma Liles

Dark evening shadows lengthen

The moon hides behind a cloud

Visions of witches and goblins

Soak into my nighttime dreams.

Dragons of days gone by

Rise up from their swampy sleep

They ravage the earth with

Their talons of fire and brimstone.

Ghost of another world

Appear as if they were real

Dripping dried bloody mouths

Their eyes devoid of eyeballs.

Wolves scream and holler

Mountain cats prowl here and there

Sheep hide among the trees

HALLOWEEN TIME IS HERE!!!

((((hee! hee! hee! GOTCHA!))))

NormaLee Liles

10-25-05

Hoopla214@yahoo.com