Halloween

2. well-dressed, wine-sipping, art-collecting therapist who listens to your deepest traumas and then pairs them with a nice Chianti
4. shade so greedy it swallows every single photon that looks at it
5. Yellow's louder, more obnoxious cousin that refuses to wear neutral tones.
8. slimy, stringy piñata packed with seeds that acts tough until you take a kitchen knife to it
9. bucket, ergonomic plastic device designed purely to transport future dental bills or a miniature storage unit for pure corn syrup and regret
11. someone sleepwalking toward the last donut in an office breakroom, their decay like terrible fashion choices, smelling like a dumpster behind a seafood restaurant on a hot July afternoon
13. a waxy pyramid of pure despair, or an edible candle that somehow survived 1911. I personally love them
15. 6-foot deep, highly permanent real estate investment with zero resale value.
17. burnt, wise-cracking sleep demon
18. special set of clothes you wear to look like someone or something else, sometimes funny, scary or risky
20. angry, ginger haired cabbage patch kid who chose violence
22. It's the ______ Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
23. organized neighborhood event where children wear cheap plastic masks and demand processed corn syrup from strangers
24. portable sun-on-a-stick

1. giant toddler with a deadly power tool and a severe case of stranger danger
3. nature's violent eviction notice for the garden or an aggressive vegetable kidnapping
6. lumpy, aggressive vegetable that sits around until it rots
7. giving your goosebumps a little tap dance , or a word used to start stories for children
10. Attack of the Killer _______ from outer space, 1988 movie that made me scared of popcorn and cotton candy
12. movies, an overly dramatic series of bad life choices where people constantly investigate creepy basement noises instead of just leaving the house
14. heavily motivated neighborhood walker who takes his step count way too seriously
16. It's just a bunch of ________ __________!
19. the words used in order to gain chocolate from strangers
21. a very determined camp counselor hater who moves at a brisk walk yet somehow always catches you