The Scariest Things

By Adaline LaBossiere

Halloween is coming

This was my childhood, the chance to experiment and enjoy different styles that my parents would never let me try

I always enjoyed going from house to house and there were always these houses that went all out and tried to scare you and gave you a ton of candy with projectors and zombies; it was really just a blast

But now I think back

Halloween was never really that scary because all of the ‘scary’ elements weren’t real

But I didn’t think about that back then

I just had two different categories in my head and only one truly scared me

It wasn’t simply me telling my sister there was something under the bed to spook her and accidentally spooking myself or me staying up watching Bloody Mary with my dad

Those were beautiful to me they were safe

What scared me was when it was fight or flight

My horror movie was not fiction it was realistic depiction

My life was its own dramatic horror movie which really wasn’t as fun as it sounded; it was who do I get today?

It was open the door Jump SCARE

It was hide in the closet until they stop yelling

It was there’s nothing you can do; it will get better

I wonder whether those houses that went all out were as scary in real life because they felt safe

I wanted safe

I needed safe

I never saw halloween as a dark holiday 

I saw it as a strategy to keep the demons at bay

If we joked and played about them it made them okay?

Plus…candy

Adaline LaBossiere is a student at Chariho High School.