It was only meant to be a bit of fun. I suppose that's the excuse everyone comes up with. Sometimes the most tragic events are only a bit of fun. I'm sure he's saying the exact same thing right now.
It was only meant to be a bit of fun. What's fun about putting cyanide into sweets and handing them out to children, I wonder? I'm sure he had his reasons.
"Trick or treat," he said with a large painted grin as he gave us large handfuls of toffees.
We should have realised his smile was fake.
We should have realised the wrappers were wrinkled, like they'd been unwrapped then wrapped up again.
We should have realised no-one would give out so many sweets in one go.
We should have realised it was a bad idea to go to that house, but we couldn't help it as the pumpkins' sinister, carved smiles lured us inside.
We should have realised that he saw right through the masks we wore.
We weren't wearing any masks on Halloween.
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My Short Stories
Short StoryI'm just going to shove all of my short stories here. Trigger warning for almost all of them. I don't own any of the images used, including the cover. 1)Betrayal 2)Trick or Treat 3) Reality 4)Haunted 5)Overshadowed 6)My Favourite Place 7)Beginning O...
