Sweet & Unexpected Gift

On Halloween, streams of costumed youngsters held out their sturdy, brightly colored trick-or-treat buckets and sacks as they climbed the front steps of my house.

- Colleen Lent

One shy girl approached, holding a thin brown plastic bag. It reminded me of the grocery store bag that broke when I was trick-or-treating as a child, spilling my collected candy all over the dark street. I then