Five Little Pumpkins

In art class last week, my classmate and teacher mentioned the game Red Rover. I said I hated that game. My art teacher and classmate said they always lost because you had to be big and strong. I said I pretended to have a nose bleed during recess so I wouldn't have to play. If there hadn't been an easel in the back of the kindergarten class, I might not have ever agreed to stay.

So what do Red Rover and kindergarten have to do with Five Little Pumpkins???

Absolutely nothing!

However, I do recall learning the poem Five Little Pumpkins in elementary school, where we also colored the pumpkins sitting on a fence with crayons and then painted the night sky with black tempera paint.

I love fall and ghost stories and cool weather and the holidays. Around fall, my urge to write seems to be stronger than any other time of the year, and I also like to write a scary story around Halloween. This year, inspired by the aforementioned poem, I wrote a middle grade story/e-book called Five Little Pumpkins, which is available on Amazon.

Something strange is going on in Ravenshadow, the exclusive neighborhood where Monica's friend Rusty wants to go on Halloween night. The candy is amazing, but does it come at a price? One thing is for sure in Ravenshadow: the residents are anything but normal. Five Little Pumpkins is a thrilling short story for middle-grade readers.