Monday Bloody Monday

All this just happened, the stories passing quickly through the schoolyard, all the way down to the first-grade kids: A twelve-year-old taken away in handcuffs, a bunch of kids expelled for something they’d done in the old warehouse. Another broke his leg in a challenge on the stairs. Someone found blood there later, then blood on a newspaper outside, then someone else said the hallways were haunted, maybe even a vampire in the cafeteria. 

So, today, powerless against this spectre of delinquents and bullies, we sent our boy back to school, but with a clove of garlic in his pocket.

Inspired by the Spooky Season. Image by AtlasStudio.