202510111 . HAIKUPRAJNA . Inside the Jack o’ Lantern [Together In Forever: The Wisps Book IV]

The scarecrow, looming, /

consumes every Hallowed Eve; /

dead leaves, rustling. 

. HAIKUPRAJNA . Inside the Jack o’ Lantern [Together In Forever: The Wisps Book IV]

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Hello reader,

Happy Halloween!

Summond the Scarecrow is about the titular Giant consuming the patrons of the Sorauren Farm’s pumpkin parade, and was inspired by the 2022 Inktober prompt list along by a trip with April [who co-wrote this story!] to a number of parks across Toronto; April likened Summond the Scarecrow to E.B. White’s Charlotte’s Web, and I have taken inspiration for the Overseer from superhero characters like Marvel’s Spider-man and Doctor Strange.

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Blurb:

The scarecrow, looming, /

consumes every Hallowed Eve; /

dead leaves, rustling. 

. HAIKUPRAJNA . Inside the Jack o’ Lantern

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Summond the Scarecrow had consumed the Overseer of the Forest.

The Seer had brought the Giant jack o’ lantern head to a post-Halloween pumpkin parade.

They were forced to watch in the form of timeless spectating Shadows, while the daemon rolled through the annual Halloween event and caused people to go missing every year. But, in part of their plan to free the patrons trapped in the pumpkin, the Seer had to tempt Summond into consuming more.

The Overseer issued the Terraform a dire warning; the Scarecrow would burn unless they released those who Summond had been consumed. 

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