It is Halloween and it is always a fun time of the year because it means lots of candy, spooky movies and stories and dressing up and parties and everything like that. Duncan this year is dressing up for the Dallas costume party and will be attending as, you guessed it, a vampire! Of course I am joking because he most certainly will use his overused costume of a donut and be duncan donut as is tradition. He will also be handing out candy for trick or treaters to give the kids candy and everything and be a part of his community. Donuts is big into trying to be the best for his community and everything and wants to be a part. He will also take a weekend to travel to Chicago to meet his future teammates with the butchers as he talks to them more now. There will be a lot of activity going on for Duncan as he tries to keep development going in his football career and also have a great Halloween season with his family, friends and teammates both current and future. Hopefully he can win this year's costume contest and everything as well and maybe Bob for some apples and eat a lot of candy and everything involved in Halloween.
Luke Skywalker was down in the dumps. He loved all the holidays: Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine’s Day, but the holiday he loved the most was Halloween, and it looked at though Halloween would be canceled this year.
“So no costumes? No parties?” he asked his sister who usually organized the most outrageous get-togethers.
“Sorry Luke, but you know with COVID going on, it just isn’t safe to throw a party this year.”
“What about the candy? Handing out the candy to the kids?” implored Luke.
“I think our neighborhood canceled it. There’s no way to hand candy out to kids that the HOA thought would be feasible.”
“Can I at least wear a costume?” asked Luke.
“Sure, but no one is going to see it unless you upload it online.”
And Luke trudged away sadly into his room.
A couple of days later, his dad knocked on the door. “Hey son, I can’t help but notice you’ve been down lately.”
“Oh, it’s just that I’m bummed there’s no Halloween this year dad,” said Luke.
“You know what I tell you son. There’s always another solution.”
Luke brightened up. “You really think so?”
“Sure,” said his dad. “Actually, why don’t you try this…”
And that is why, on Halloween, kids RSVP’s and lined up to run around the Skywalker lawn while Luke threw perfect spirals of candy into the kids trick-or-treating bags, bringing Halloween fun for everyone.
"No, not there. There!" Jalen pointed towards the corner of his living room.
"I think it looks better here."
"If you want it to look bad, sure."
Dick Grayson relented and moved the fake spider web from where he had it to the corner of the room where Jalen was pointing. The wide receiver corps had elected to decorate the team clubhouse for Halloween this year and so far Jalen had been calling the shots. In college he volunteered to help design sets for the plays that the drama class put on every semester, so in that short window of time he had collected a certain set of skills that allowed him to paint pictures and transport others to another realm through decoration.
Skeletons hung from the ceiling, spider-webs covered the walls and hung from the ceiling fan and chandelier. There was a bubbling witches cauldron, which really was just some dry ice in a cheap prop from the store. Once the rest of the team got here that was when the real fun would start. A DJ booth had been set in the center of the room, and someone from the team had already volunteered to run it all night.
Being from Australia, there isn't as much Halloween celebration going on in Heath's household as many of the other players may enjoy. A typical Halloween back home for him would consist of buying up vast quantites of snack size chocolate bars, waiting through the evening only to have nobody knock on his door, and then ultimately gorging on the chocolate himself in the days following. This season Heath will be spending the evening at his apartment in Arizona - and while it will be different in that there will be kids out knocking on doors, there's no doubt Heath will still enjoy a lengthy binge on snack foods after the evening is over.
While other players may be out partying or spending time with family/friends, now that Heath's friend Bruce has made the long haul trip to Yellowknife for the foreseeable future he does not have any other local Australians to share in his misery. Instead, Heath will be watching game film and putting in his best effort to match last season's result of winning the Tight End of the Year award. This season he has much more fierce competition, and with a change to the rules determining winners he may find himself competing against a crowd of Tight Ends playing Wide Receiver. All in all, this Halloween season - Heath Evans is quietly trying to improve.