POISON KANDIE
(Stories)
Pumpkin
By: THIRTEENTWO
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Jeff was late getting off work October 31st. He promised he'd bring home a pumpkin, and he was almost home when he remembered the promise. Nightfall wasn't far away and all the good ones were long gone. He visited countless patches before coming home with a sorry little thing he probably wouldn't even be able to carve.
When he got home, he found there was already one by the door; carved and everything. It was scarier looking than anything he could have ever done. He felt a little jealous already but he was happy someone remembered in time for halloween. The house was decorated with plenty of spider webs and dead dummies, the scary pumpkin was the perfect touch to finish it all off. He asked his wife where it had come from. She thought it was his pumpkin. The subject was forgotten after that because Luis, their daughter's kitten was missing. He couldn't be found anywhere and now it was Jeff's turn to search. Night came and Jeff coaxed his daughter and wife into trick or treating. Luis would be okay and halloween only came once a year. They left a bowl in front of the house for the trickers and the treaters and left. They didn't come back until very late. One of the last kids to come was very rude and a few years older than your average trick or treater. He only went to houses with bowls in front and emptied the contents into his pillow case. If he could break something too, it was a special treat for him. After he took all the candy, he tried to kick the scary pumpkin but he got a trick instead of his treat. The pumpkin bit his foot. The tricker screamed and cried out for help, but it was halloween and people weren't paying attention to boys crying wolf. It was late and most good little boys and girls were at home enjoying the fruits of their labor or dreaming about it. The tricker fainted after a while. When Jeff came home with his family, the pumpkin was a little bigger and a little scarier looking. There was a little blood dripping down it's face but nobody noticed any of the changes, they just avoided it. Nobody noticed the bag of candy in the bushes. By morning, the scary pumpkin was gone and everyone in the house was happy to see it go. It was such an ugly thing anyways. The kind that gave little kids nightmares and worried other people because you couldn't quite know if it was a work of art or a living thing. Nobody ever saw Luis the cat or the Bad Tricker ever again. |
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