![]() This is the story that’s going to take me all the way to the honorable mention.” Of course it was not to be. I was pretty proud of it and I thought, “This is it. I wrote my story from the perspective of the frog. I decided the scariest possible thing that could happen would be for the frog to wake up during this procedure and see me there, operating on him. ![]() We’d been dissecting frogs in my biology class, and the horrifying part was that the frogs were still alive-just knocked out-when we cut into them, because our teacher wanted us to see how their circulatory systems worked. The story I remember best was the last one I entered before I aged out of the competition, in a contest for the scariest Halloween story. I never won, and it was hard not to, because they awarded dozens of prizes for each contest. When I was a kid growing up in Denver, I always used to enter the children’s writing competitions at the Tattered Cover, a bookstore that awed me with its three floors of books.
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