Flying Jack-o'-Lanterns: Fantasy

We really didn't think anything unusual was happening that Halloween until we say jack-o'-lanterns taking to the air and flying off. That's what it looked like at first, you know, since we could actually see the jack-o'-lanterns because of the light inside. Except for the electric ones, of course--those got the cord pulled out of them first and were generally dropped to smash in the street a minute later when the carriers realized what they’d grabbed. We live in a more crowded, urban area of town, so there weren't that many pumpkins outside to grab--nobody likes cleaning up smashed pumpkin, you know! But there were enough. Enough that a couple of the news choppers out doing some sort of novelty eye-in-the-sky Halloween thing got a few really good video feeds of the flying jack-o'-lanterns. enough that we realized that something really, really freaking weird was going on. Then the eyewitness reports started to come in (and believe me, by that time we had flipped on the local news to see if anybody had an explanation about why this was happening), and we were informed that a swarm of unusually large bats were behind the jack-o'-lantern thefts. Still just something worth laughing about and remembering to tell people about--


Inspiration: LJ's Halloween theme, with bats carrying off jack-o'-lanterns.
Story potential: High.
Notes: Forgot jack-o'-lantern was hyphenated. Huh. Also, ritual magic invoking the essence of Halloween! Bumping this one from medium potential to high simply because of the holiday connection.