Hello October

As the weather gets colder and we all transition from drinking iced to warm coffee and rose to red, I'll need some warming short stories to keep me going!

Goal
The goal here is to write a short story inspired using one of the fall writing prompts below! The story can be any genre, but it has to relate back to your chosen prompt.

Guidelines
1. Try to keep the word count below 5000.
2. Mibba's guidelines, duh.
3. Original fiction only.
4. No pre-writes.
5. You must use at least one prompt, and at most 5.
5b. Please claim your prompts in your original post!
6. Reference the contest on the summary page.

Brownie Points
1. An inspired layout with prompts incorporated.
2. Themes of friendship or romance (warm things)
3. Supernatural and fantasy stories!

Deadlines
To enter: never
To complete: December 20 2015

Prizes!
First Place: 3 Story comments and recommendations, a story or blog layout, and a story review
Second place: 3 Story comments, and a story or blog layout
Third place: 3 Story comments
****All entries will get thorough comments per chapter!

Prompts
1. Hot chocolate
2. Jack-o-lanterns
3. Pumpkin spice lattes
4. Thanksgiving
5. Halloween
6. Leaf piles
7. Candles
8. Campfires
9. Midterms
10. Fake blood
11. Sweet potatoes
12. Red wine
13. Sweaters
14. Fireplaces
15. Early nights
16. Fog
17. Hunting
18. Trench coats
19. Hiking
20. Forests
21. Pie // general baking
22. Maple Syrup
23. Apple Orchards
24. Cinnamon
25. Spooky stories

CONTESTANTS

1. Starfire: spooky stories, sweaters and apple orchards
2. BringMeTheFuentes: Halloween, campfires, and spooky stories
3. finn collins.: hot chocolate, sweaters, and midterms
4. Alpha's Angel: chocolate, jack-o-lanterns, and hunting.
5. amy dunne.:jack-o-lantern, fog, and Halloween
6. raven reyes: Thanksgiving, candles, midterms, hunting, pie // general baking.

Can I do one that combines spooky stories, sweaters, and apple orchards?

@ aubree james.
May I combine Halloween, Campfires, and Spooky Stories?

I'd like hot chocolate, sweaters and midterms!

Could I combine Hot Chocolate, Jack o lanterns and Hunting please?

May I do one for jack-o-lantern, fog, and Halloween, please?

Hm, I'll give this ago.

Thanksgiving, Candles, Midterms, Hunting, Pie // general baking

@ starfire.
@ BringMeTheFuentes
@ finn collins.
@ The Alpha's Angel
@ amy dunne.
@ raven reyes

DONE! I can't wait so see what you all come up with! :)

Can I have Thanksgiving and Fireplaces, please?
- And I'm not sure if I missed this, but can it be a one/two-shot? :)

Can I enter with spooky stories, Halloween and jack-o-lanterns?

May I please combine Jack-o-Lanterns, Halloween and trench coats? :)