Halloween,
kid excitement,
Candy, costumes,
candy.

Official start
of Holiday Season
craziness.

Store shelves
overstocked
with treats.

201% sugar,
costumes,
horror classics,
monster marathons.

followed by
incidents of
candy hangover.

Sugar overdoses,
wide spread
crankiness
in the streets.

Yet an event
we still welcome
year after year.

 

Janet Cormier is a painter, writes prose and poetry, and performs comedy. Janet prefers different and original over pretty. She loves collecting stuff, but cleaning not so much. Janet also talks to strangers. A lot. Her column appears weekly on Oddball Magazine.