In 1982, our local newspaper held a Halloween story contest. “Graveyard Walk” took the third-place prize, two tickets to John Carpenter’s Halloween III: Season of the Witch. Every few years, I pull the story out and rework it a bit. The story reminds me of those late fall days walking home from school in the fading sunlight, imagining ghosts behind the bare trees. Here’s “Graveyard Walk” 2020.