My Spooktoberfest post is here.
This week’s Six Sentence Sunday is another Halloween story, from Part IV of my contemporary historical Bildungsroman Little Ragdoll. It’s Halloween 1972, and 18-year-old Adicia feels rather sad to see her 13-year-old sister and little nieces and nephew in costumes. Growing up, she and her siblings were cheated out of a lot of things, including real celebrations of all the holidays. Now that she’s finally out of poverty, she’s afraid she’s too old.
Then her sister-in-law Lenore comes to the rescue as she’s so often done over the years.
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“I guess I’m too old,” Adicia says sadly when Justine returns dressed in a pink dress with black and neon blue fairy wings attached to the back. “I don’t even have a costume.”
“Why don’t you try on some of my clothes?” Lenore suggests. “Come upstairs with me and we’ll see if we can’t find you a makeshift costume. I’ve got a lot of clothes that could work as a Gypsy or Bohemian costume. Most people probably wouldn’t peg you for eighteen anyway.”
Never too old. Besides, at eighteen, I barely looked like a teenager.
Gypsy costumes have saved many a Halloween for me—a couple scarves and a broomskirt and there you go!
(I love your Halloween blog-theme!)
Oh, they’ll have FUN! I hope she finds something she loves!
I used to go as a gypsy all the time – easiest to do
That’s what family’s for! Very cute.
I remember being a gypsy. Great potential for a costume that’s quick and easy. Hope she gets to have all the fun she’s been missing.
Aww, that’s nice! Enjoyed this excerpt, really appropriate for Halloween!