SUSANNAH STEWART | PUMPKIN JACK, BLOODY BONES, AND THE BAD CHILDREN, Epilogue

Pumpkin Jack and Bloody Bones

Their last act

Susannah MacKinnie
3 min readOct 31, 2020

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Pumpkin Jack and Bloody Bones with Enter If You Dare sign
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Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.
Alfred A. Montapert

Refused to reform

Actions have consequences

They met a bad end

Two great villains from Kent
Made trouble wherever they went.
Then they met their match
With no escape hatch
From endless shaker torment.

Here is how Pumpkin Jack and Bloody Bones met their fate.

Pumpkin Jack has a plan to save himself and a reluctant Bloody Bones from life as Halloween decorations and to become fierce monsters once more. The other Halloween decorations, Agatha and Phineas Greystone, Ambrose and Oscar Swopes, Jacky O, and Dracula lecture, mock, and plead with Pumpkin Jack to accept his fate.

Enraged, he threatens everyone and plans to use the children who visit the cottage in his scheme to get his power back. He knows he can feed on the cruelty in Muffy and Buffy Haynes…

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Susannah MacKinnie

Lover of collages, quilts, vignettes, and tone poem journals.