Halloween Special Scary Story Collection

Cannibal Town

Flash fiction sort of:

Synopsis: A woman goes to a yard sale in an oddly quiet town that doesn't seem right.

"By Golly, I haven't seen a yard sale in years!"

Meria said as she approached the yard full of misilanceious things.

The yard was empty, except for one person, who had been standing just inside the screen door of the yard.

The person, does not answer and continues to stare at her. 

She laughs nervously at this and proceeds to survey the numerous things.

 A mirror, didn't need that. A baby bottle, NOPE NO KIDS. A....plate, a single plate. And a picture, portrait of....

And there it was, in the framed picture was a portrait of Meria's Fiance, and some stranger. They appeared to look like that famous painting of a farmer with his pitch fork.

Meira let out a breath of air, as if she had just been punched in the gut. She shoots a look up at the person standing behind the screen door, but they are not there anymore.

She looks around, and notices that there are people standing in the screen doors of all the houses, which now that she observed, all looked the same.

She turned back to the portrait and tried to figure out what she should do with it.

Just then she felt a tap on her shoulder.

She startled, and spun around, standing there was an old shriveled man a little taller than her.

"Can I help you find something miss?"

Meira nodded very seriously, attempting to regain her composure,

"Yes, You can actually. I would like to know where you got this photograph from?"

She pointed and he noticed, he approached it, and as he did so, Meria began to notice the people in the screen doors in the neighborhood numerous ones had somebody join them since she had last looked.

She turned back around, to see the old man holding up the portrait like it was Simba from The Lion King.

"Ah yes, this is the portrait of my....."

He begins to tear up, he puts it down, he grabs the plate (that Meria had seen) and smashed it angrily on the table, which the portrait was rested on. He cries out in anger, Meria, wide eyed, began to back up slowly. She half turned away to the car, not wanting to take her eyes off the man.

As she looked to her car, she noticed that the people in the screen doors had begun to emerge from their houses. Families. They were advancing towards her. She looked back to the man and saw that an old woman was opening the screen door where he had stood earlier.

She cursed under her breath.

The man began sputtering words out, like he couldn't help himself.

"I"M SORRY!!! WE WERE HUNGRY!"

"What the fuck.."

Meria lets out. The old man spins back to her, suddenly it occurred to her that he looked a lot like Gollum from The Lord of the Rings. Mixed with the picture of the homeless man from the Aqualung album by Jethro Tull.

Meira stumbles back to her car and runs around the front grabs the handle, she had locked it. She reaches for her keys in her pocket, grabs them, but they fall to the ground.

"Crap!"

She quickly reaches down, scoops them up, and only then when she stands back up does she see their reflection in her car window, standing behind her.