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prologue,

first of all it was october,a rare month for boys. not that other months arent rare .but there be bad and good the pirates say. take september, a bad month:school begins.concider auguse, a good month :school hasn`t begun yet july,well july`s really fine theres no chance in the world for school june no doubting it junes best of all , for the school doors spring wide and september`s a billion years away but you take october now. school`s been on a month and your riding easier on the reins, jogging along you got time to think about garbage you`ll dump on old man prickett`s porch or the hairy are costume you`ll wear to the YMCA the last night of the month and if its around october 20th and everything smoky-smelling and the sky orange and ash gray at twilight, it seems halloween will never come in a fall of broomsticks and a soft flap of bedsheets around corners.but one strange wild dark year, halloween came early one year halloween came on october 24th, three hours after midnight at that time james nightshade of 97 oak street was thirteen years eleven months 23 days old next door william halloway was 13 years 11 months and 24 days old both touched 14 it almost trembled in their hands. and that october week when they grew up overnight and were never so young anymore. . . .