Don’t Go Out, Tonight

Lit Up Halloween Spooks

Dermott Hayes
Nov 1 · 2 min read
Martin Vorel

Jenny, Tim and Sean said they’d all be there and their parents wouldn’t mind, sure they’d be there too.
“You have to come,” they said, “it’s great craic. We go trick or treating and we bob for apples. There’ll be barmbrack and hot apple punch, mince pies and sweet rolls.”
“And afterwards there’ll be a bonfire and fireworks. It’s deadly, You’ll love it.”
He couldn’t understand why his…

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Dermott Hayes

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Novellist, poet, blogger and ex-journalist. ‘If the cap fits.’ https://medium.com/@dermotthayes

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