Six Sentences

Keith's Ramblings

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Halloween Night at The Baaamy Inn is always quite an occasion, most of the regulars dress up in spooky costumes and Landlord Len always hands out blood red cocktails as they arrive; Polly from the knitting circle often brings her twin sister Dolly along, they are hard enough to tell apart at the best of times but dressed as witches it’s impossible to tell which witch is which!

Ted was talking about how he met his wife Partricia, or Tric as he calls her, at a fancy dress party;  “there she was tall, slender and gorgeous, she was with her somewhat rotund friend and they came together dressed as the number ten; as soon as I saw her I knew she was the one!”

Arthur had his fellow farmers spellbound as he told them a creepy story, “I was crossing the cemetery late the other night and I heard a strange noise, tap, tap, tap, it went, tap, tap, tap; I started trembling with fear then I saw something in the misty shadows, a wizzened old man chipping away at a grave stone, I told him he’d scared me, that I thought he was a ghost and I asked him what he was doing working so late, he just looked me in the eye and said, ‘the stupid stonemason spelled my name wrong’ “.

Suzie at the next table thought she’d treat them to a trick, she held out her hand and asked Babs to place a coin in her palm, then she closed her hand, waved her fist in the air, opened her hand again and the coin had disappeared – then she repeated it at every table in the pub, she likes having a trick up her sleeve, and enough cash up there to buy herself another drink!

Colin’s big moment had arrived, “witches that live together a broom-mates –  a witch went to the doctor because she had a dizzy spell – vampires celebrate Fangsgiving – skeletons don’t trick or treat because they have no body to go with – a dog that can does magic tricks is a Labracadabrador – a magician that looses his magic is called Ian – a magician made some antiques disappear, now museum, now you don’t – the Spanish magician said ‘uno dos’ then disappeared without a tres – ghosts don’t like to shower because it dampens their spirits – ghosts keep fit by exorcising – I suspected my girlfriend was a ghost when she walked through the door – there is one thing I hate about Halloween, witch is……..”

After another successful and profitable Halloween, Len looked around the empty bar; he suddenly noticed that his dearly departed Moggie’s ghoulie costume was no longer hanging from the hook in the corner – then he heard a distant voice, ’come along, Len, your ghost awaits you!’.

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Thanks to Denise at GirlieOnTheEdge for hosting Six Sentence Stories where this week’s given word is Trick

21 thoughts on “Six Sentences”

  6. Frank Hubeny's avatar Frank Hubeny Oct 30, 2025 / 22:20

    Nice one from Colin: “ghosts keep fit by exorcising”

    I also liked how tall, slender Patricia and her rotund friend came dressed as the number 10.

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  8. clark's avatar clark Oct 31, 2025 / 01:53

    liked the: …”her somewhat rotund friend and they came together dressed as the number ten; as soon as I saw her I knew she was the one!”

    put some English on that word-play

    and the ending… excellent

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    • Keith's Ramblings's avatar Keith's Ramblings Nov 1, 2025 / 16:04

      I remember seeing a couple like that once and thinking they looked like a ten – I knew it would come in handy one day! Thanks so much, kind sir.

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