Halloween Forest: Fantasy

The forest grew on Halloween. Ghost trees rose through the pavement, mushrooms sprouting around their roots and along the asphalt streets like it was the finest loam. Birds flew through the foliage and vanished. Fox and deer poked their heads around the trunks of the trees or bounded across the road, causing vans full of trick-or-treaters to slam on their brakes. It didn't take much longer for the news vans to appear than it had the mushrooms. They too sprouted from the street, their strange stalks and appendages angling here and there. Some of them were probably convinced that they'd gone crazy, but they were determined to go quietly and doing their jobs, documenting the insanity until the nice men in the white coats came to take them away. Instead, they found that yes, their cameras could record the ghost forests just fine. Some places it wasn't forest, of course. There was tall grass prairie, which was more of a problem since ghost grass extended above the windshield of the cars trying to drive through it, and though it was mostly transparent, once you added up the blades of grass it because something that was quite impossible to see through.


Inspiration: "This is Halloween" - Marilyn Manson + http://www.flickr.com/photos/e_haya/9725445816/
Story potential: Medium
Notes: This is my second idea about ghosts (of some kind) coming back on the traditional holiday, and the regular world having to deal with it. Not sure if that means the idea is played out or if it means that there's really something there. Harrumph.