Welcome to the Sparkle Stories podcast, everyone. This is Elizabeth of Sparkle Stories

with our very first official Halloween story for this season. I am sharing the story

Halloween magic from the Junkyard Tales. Junkyard Tales is one of the

very first story series we started years ago, and it's always been a favorite because it's just so

funny. And it's also dear, this beautiful community of animals learning to live together in the junkyard and take sweet care

of each other. So in this story, of course, it's Halloween. And little mama, you know little

mama, the mama rabbit and Spiro the skunk, have a competition during Halloween. Whose costume is best?

But this year, Ben Thompson throws his hat into the ring

and brings in his own special Halloween magic

and he turns the whole competition upside down.

So you get to listen in, get a little Halloween inspiration,

and find out exactly what is little mama planning to dress up as? what about Spiro and how does Ben Thompson upend the whole thing?

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start free trial. Okay, now on to the story, Halloween magic.

This is a story about a cat.

The cat's name was Benjamin Thompson, an unusual name for a cat, but Ben was an unusual cat. This is also a story about a junkyard, a most unusual place that was home to a host of unusual animals.

Now, this junkyard was a very big junkyard, and the animals that lived there divided

it into different neighborhoods.

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