Halloween Short Story

October 31, 2015, Halloween day. Today was just another old boring day just like yesterday and the day before. The only difference was more children and kids crowded the streets at night, going from house to house begging for candy with the words "Trick or Treat". And as expected, the door flew open and a coupled handed each child a hand full of candy for their bag, just to carry to the next house to do it all over again.

Out of all the children I've seen litter the streets with candy wrappers and other trash on their candy collecting endeavors. I noticed this lone child, walking without a care in the world. Eating candy, tossing the wrapper on the street as he walks past other kids, stuffing some in people's mailboxes like he didn't care.

He looked like the Grim Reaper and death warmed over. He strolled past this couple of kids and as he passed these kids. He turned around and yelled really loud and scared the shit out of these kids, they turned around and bolted like a bullet from a gun, and he just stood there laughing like it was ok to be a jerk to anyone he passed.

He continued to walk down the street and noticed a house with its light on, so he veered off to the sidewalk, walking in the direction of the house with its light on. I'm ready for some more candy he thought to himself, I'm almost out. So he walks up to the door, Knocks on the door and waits a few minutes.

No one has showed up yet to offer him some candy. So he knocks again but a bit louder TAP, TAP, TAP, you could hear the sound of the hard wood. He waits another few minutes and nothing. By this time he's aggravated because no one is coming to the door. So he walks off down the sidewalk to see if he could see another house giving out candy.

He walks a block down and decided to turn at the next block. The night is getting darker and darker on this Halloween night. No street lights are working as he's walking down this road at night and appears to not be a single soul in sight. All the sudden, he sees about 3 blocks down a light on. So he walks down towards this light, in hopes someone will be home for some candy.

Finally making it to the door, he knocks on the door of this very old looking house. Victorian scroll work by the roof, old hinged shutters around the windows. Attic window appears to be broken. He's not scared. No one has come to the door yet and he's getting pissed off, this will be the second house so far tonight not coming to the door.

So he decides to knock very hard this time. TAP, TAP, TAP and the door swings open by the force of his knock. You can hear the door squeaking as it opens. It echoes in the house and up the stairs that's visible from the front door.

He calls out, HELLO, Anyone here?

No answer, so he calls out again, HELLO, Is anyone here, Trick or Treat he yells.

Still no answer, so he decides to walk into the house uninvited, as he walks past the door, the Door flung shot with speed... Whoosh... the slam of the door could be heard echoing throughout the house. And he whipped his head around to find the door shut and locked.

Now he's really freaking out, the door is shut and locked and I'm in this house all along. There appears to be no candy around at all, not even by the door, so he looks around for an exit because he's getting more freaked out as time passes.

Walking to the right, appears to be the kitchen. He is walking around the kitchen, chairs are up against the table, dishes in the drainer, drawers are all closed but one. Strolling over to the drawer, knives, spoons and forks are sitting stacked on top of each other very well organized. All but one Knife, a Butcher knife that appears to be missing but he couldn't tell since it's not his house.

So he moves faster to locate a door, but none is in the kitchen, so he walks back around the table and exits the kitchen back into the front room. He walks through the door in front of him, which appears to be a den. Fireplace is blazing with a fire. But nobody is in here the thought, why would the fireplace be going with no one to attend to it?