The Haunted Pen

 A tale known only to a few, kept a secret that the world would never know about. 

“ Tell us! Tell us !” The kids yelled. 

“Only if you promise to go to bed” the dad said,

“ ok…. Fine, we promise.”

It was a quiet evening, and I couldn’t fall asleep, so I went downtown shopping and wandered into an antique shop that I always passed but never went in. But some faint whisper told me to go into the shop. 

“ Dad… when was this?” 

“A long time ago.”

“How long ago?”

“Do you want to hear this story?”

… 

After shopping for a while, there was a pen covered in dust with no price tag, with a mysterious tag that read, “Use at your own risk”. The shopkeeper said that it was free and that it had been decades since anyone had ever picked it up. But it had come with a notebook. 

Reading the notebook, it sounded as if it were more like a journal, a list of events that happened in someone’s personal life, but some historical events that sounded too detailed. But being an English teacher, I couldn’t help but notice the small grammar mistakes and added a period. The date, April 14th, 1865. Do you guys know what that date is?

“I know, I know! That’s the day Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.”

Yep, and on that day, Lincoln was assassinated. It was only later did I realized that every event that was written in that notebook happened, on the exact date, on the exact time. 

“Wow… must be a coincidence.”

“Anyways. That’s the story. Good night, kids.” 

“No, no… There must be more!”

“That’s all for now. I’ll tell you the rest tomorrow.” 

Setting the pen down, he wondered what he should write with the last few drops of ink, whether he should bless the world or haunt it for generations. He decided then to write that for every year on October 31st that the weird tradition of kids knocking on doors asking for candy would be used to remember the day that he found the haunted pen that made words into reality. 

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Summary: The genre of this story is historical fiction, and the consequences that followed were the change in history, but leaving the world with trick or treating on the last day of October. 

BOO!!!