Short Stories for Kids: Bedtime ~ Car Time ~ Downtime
Aug 18, 2026 Β· 15 min Β· 10 segments
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She loved the costumes, the candy, the carved pumpkins, the spooky music, and the way the streets glowed orange on October 31st.
She loved ghosts with silly faces, witches with crooked hats, skeletons that danced, and vampires who wore shiny black capes.
"That is completely unfair," Sally often complained.
"It comes every year," Mom reminded her.
"Yes, but I have to wait a whole year each time," Sally said.
Her bedroom walls were covered with pictures of goblins, black cats, haunted houses, and smiling jack-o'-lanterns.
Fake cobwebs stretched across her bookshelf, and a plastic skeleton named Mr.
Bones sat in the corner wearing one of Dad's old hats.
Her shelves were packed with spooky books, like Goosebumps and Bunnicula, and every ghost story she could find at the library.
Sally even slept beneath a blanket decorated with tiny pumpkins.
At school, her friends called her Scary Sally.
Sally didn't mind at all.
"I think it sounds magnificent," she said proudly.
"Much better than Ordinary Sally." Her best friend Mia agreed.
"You're definitely not ordinary," Mia said.
Sally also had a cat named Big Frank.
Big Frank was a huge black and white cat with enormous paws, a round belly, and a tail that knocked things off tables whenever he turned around.
He was gentle, lazy, and always hungry.
Because Sally thought every witch needed a cat, she dressed Big Frank in a tiny black witch's hat and gave him his own broomstick.
There was only one problem.
Big Frank was much too heavy for the broomstick.
The moment he sat on it, the broom bent in the middle.
She loved the costumes, the candy, the carved pumpkins, the spooky music, and the way the streets glowed orange on October 31st.
She loved ghosts with silly faces, witches with crooked hats, skeletons that danced, and vampires who wore shiny black capes.
"That is completely unfair," Sally often complained.
"It comes every year," Mom reminded her.
"Yes, but I have to wait a whole year each time," Sally said.
Her bedroom walls were covered with pictures of goblins, black cats, haunted houses, and smiling jack-o'-lanterns.
Fake cobwebs stretched across her bookshelf, and a plastic skeleton named Mr.
Bones sat in the corner wearing one of Dad's old hats.
Her shelves were packed with spooky books, like Goosebumps and Bunnicula, and every ghost story she could find at the library.
Sally even slept beneath a blanket decorated with tiny pumpkins.
At school, her friends called her Scary Sally.
Sally didn't mind at all.
"I think it sounds magnificent," she said proudly.
"Much better than Ordinary Sally." Her best friend Mia agreed.
"You're definitely not ordinary," Mia said.
Sally also had a cat named Big Frank.
Big Frank was a huge black and white cat with enormous paws, a round belly, and a tail that knocked things off tables whenever he turned around.
He was gentle, lazy, and always hungry.
Because Sally thought every witch needed a cat, she dressed Big Frank in a tiny black witch's hat and gave him his own broomstick.
There was only one problem.
Big Frank was much too heavy for the broomstick.
The moment he sat on it, the broom bent in the middle.
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