AN: You thought I would let October go by without doing anything? You should be ashamed of yourself.
I considered doing one little one-shot, but then I thought to myself, 'why not set yourself a little challenge?' So I did. One one-shot for every day of the month. And because I'm a glutton for self-torture, all of these one-shots had to take place on Halloween.
So. Scarecrow's been waiting all year to get to work. Won't you go with him? He's promised to be on his best behavior...most of the time.
-Scary
Jonathan Crane leaned against his bedroom window and watched the crows. They'd come out of the chapel and into the fields-fitting, since it was Halloween.
Somewhere, his classmates were out getting drunk and destroying public property. When he was younger, he would have liked to join them. Now he just wanted Granny to go to sleep.
The crows gathered in the cornfield and cawed at a group of pirates walking by. Jonathan half-expected them to attack, but they didn't. Maybe the pirates weren't close enough to bother with.
He flopped back on his bed and looked at the door. Granny hadn't come up yet. Maybe she had fallen asleep in her chair by the fire. He didn't feel like risking his neck tonight and decided to stay put. She was already upset because this was 'the Devil's holiday'. Whatever.
A crow landed on his windowsill and cawed at him. He cringed. Why couldn't it go back to the chapel, where it belonged? Granny had nothing to punish him for today. It had no business being here.
His got up and smacked the glass. The crow squawked and fluttered away. Ha.
Jonathan went back to bed and looked up at the ceiling. After a few minutes, the stairs creaked. Granny was going to bed. He gave it a few minutes to make sure she wouldn't come back, then reached under his mattress for the book of ghost stories he'd gotten from the library.
Happy Halloween, indeed.
THE END
AN: Some of these are funny
and some of these are dry
but most of them will make you scream
and some might make you cry.
Never write poetry again, you're terrible.
I'd like to see you try it!
Shut up, Scarecrow.