Number 99 by Juneta Key Listen on Halloween Podcast Oct. 31st. #storytimebloghop

Welcome to Storytime Quarterly Blog Hop for our October Edition 2019.

You can read all the stories and listen to some of the stories from authors all around the globe.
New this year for Halloween: Several of us submitted our stories for acceptance to be read aloud on the podcast Alone In The Room With Invisible People hosted by Rebecca Galardo and Holly Lisle My story Number 99 will be read on the podcast. Last year’s Halloween podcast was awesome!

Listen to the 2018 Halloween Episode here.

Podcast October 29th Part 1 of Halloween Special 2019

Podcast October 31st Part 2 of Halloween Special 2019! Listen to Number 99 on this date.

NUMBER 99 By Juneta Key

No spelling and riding without a license.  

I’d only heard that 1001 times.  The hardest part of broom riding?  Staying on the dang thing. 

My beginners permit allowed me to practice until it was old hat.  My final test was tomorrow. 

Except, tonight was Halloween.  Everyone in the supernatural community would be at the Halloween party.  Unfortunately, my date and ride called last minute, saying he had witch-warts, which was highly contagious to magical beings, especially witches, hence the name. 

I might have gotten away with riding an unlicensed broom, except the mischievous Westwind snatched my invitation.  I cast one tiny return spell.  That is the last thing I remember, and the pivoting wind funnel smacking me.

I’d been walking round the boonies forever.  Well, not really, I think.  My head ached.  I wasn’t sure how long I had been unconscious after the crash.

The ground was foggy.  No moon.  I would cast a telepathy spell to call for help, but this far out, no one would hear me.  I had not mastered teleportation yet, even for short distances. 

No matter how long I walked it felt like I was going nowhere.  The building loomed up out of nothingness, a huge curvy-eight monstrosity. 

I stopped.  My skin tingled.  The air hummed.  I must have tripped a boundary alarm.  In a blink, I went from standing in the drive to standing inside the building.  A red neon sign, over the foyer desk, said, “Hotel Eternity.”  

The guy behind the desk was in costume.  The skull mask he wore very realistic and creepy.  I could hear “The Monster Mash” playing somewhere down one of the hallways and laughter.   

Had I serendipitously stumbled into my party?   Doubtful.  This place rattled my witchy senses. 

I’d just borrow the phone and be on my way. 

I approached the desk.  The guy ignored me.

Determined I said, “Excuse me.  Do you have a phone?”

He pushed the registrar toward me.  I read: Recruitment down hall 8 and to the right. 

“Look I just need a phone.”  Still no response.  Glaring for five minutes changed nothing. 

I turned.  Hallways spiraled out in every direction.  Why hadn’t I noticed that before?   

The door sign said:
Welcome.  Grim Reaper Recruitment Office for Witches.  Please take a number and have a seat.

I entered.  The room was brimming with black cats.   Hundreds of witch-brooms filled a storage rack that covered one wall. 

The inner office door opened.  “Number 99 please enter.”  The voice sounded irritated.  I looked down at my number.  That was me.  I took a seat at the desk. 

“Spelling and riding, with no license, huh?”  The woman smirked at me, even though she was the one dressed like a cartoon witch: striped stockings and red shoes.

She handed me a thick black grimoire, broom, and a sickle wand. “Welcome to the Grim Witches Squadron #99.  Let me reassure you: here, you can spell and ride without a consequence.”

Number 99 by Juneta Key #storytimebloghop

STORYTIME QUARTERLY BLOG HOP JANUARY, APRIL, JULY & OCTOBER

PODCAST: General Link: Alone In A Room With Invisible People

My story Number 99 will be read in character on the above podcast when the episode airs either Tue. Oct. 29th and/or the 2nd episode on Halloween Thurs. Oct. 31st. I won’t know on which episode my story will be read until they air. I will update this link on the 28th and add a second link on the 31st if you wish to return to listen.

Podcast October 29th Part 1 of Halloween Special 2019

Podcast October 31st Part 2 of Halloween Special 2019! Listen to Number 99 on this date, Oct 31st.

1. Number 99 by Juneta Key<–YOU ARE HERE
2. Edda’s Second Chance by Katharina Gerlach
3. Very Thin Line by Rebecca Anne Dillon
4. Henry Moves House by Nic Steven
5. For The Ghost The Bell Tolls by James Husum
6. Never Alone by Melanie Drake
7. The Neighbor by Meghan Collins
8. Storytime Blog Hop by Raven O’Fiernan
9. Loney Lucy by Bill Bush
10. The Traveler by Barbara Lund
11. Evening by Karen Lynn
12. Man Of Your Dreams by Gina Fabio
13. The Undertaker’s Daughter by J. Q. Rose
14. Family Time by Bonnie Burns
15. The Road by Elizabeth McCleary
16. The Exception by Vanessa Wells
17. Storytime Blog Hop by C. T. Bridges
18. Storytime Blog Hop by Warp World Books

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