The Pumpkin on Willow Lane
Every Halloween, a single pumpkin appeared on the porch of the abandoned Durney house. No one ever saw who placed it there, and no one dared get close. It glowed with a strange blue light — cold and alive, like it was breathing.
This year, twelve-year-old Emily decided she wasn’t afraid. She wanted to prove it was just an old legend. When night fell, she slipped away from her friends and crept up the rotting steps.
The pumpkin was beautiful — its grin too perfect, its eyes too deep. Emily reached out to touch it.
The light pulsed. Once. Twice. Then the pumpkin blinked.
Her scream never came out. The blue glow swallowed her whole, leaving only silence.
By morning, the neighbors found two pumpkins glowing on the porch — one smiling wide, one trembling with fear carved into its face.
No one spoke of it again.
But every Halloween since, another pumpkin appears.
And every year, Willow Lane loses another child.
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