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Rated: E · Short Story · Occult · #1719867
Pay backs are a Witch
                                                  THE HALLOWEEN SPIRIT                                                      ROSE THOMPSON HATED  HOLIDAYS BUT SHE ABSOLUTELY LOATHED HALLOWEEN  ,SHE HATED  DECORATIONS,  CANDY,  PUMPKINS ,SCARECROWS,AND APPLE CIDER, IT'S TRUE, BUT MOST OF ALL SHE DESPISED  CHILDREN  AND HALLOWEEN WAS THE ONE NIGHT OF THE YEAR WHEN THEY COULD KNOCK ON HER DOOR  WITH IMPUNITY  THOUGH SHE TURNED OFF ALL THE LIGHTS THEY STILL CAME TO PESTER HER WITH THEIR  SHOUTS OF TRICK OR TREAT AND WHEN SHE FAILED TO ANSWER THE DOOR THEY SOAPED  HER WINDOWS . LIVING ON THE EDGE OF TOWN DID NOT SPARE HER FROM THEIR  VISITS .HER ANGER  INCREASED  EACH  YEAR UNTIL FINALLY SHE  DECIDED THAT THIS YEAR WOULD BE DIFFERENT  IF IT WAS TREATS THEY WANTED THEN  TREATS THEY WOULD GET, AND  WHAT TREATS THEY WOULD BE ! SHE SET ABOUT ROUNDING UP THE NECESSARY SUPPLIES TO CARRY OUT HER PLAN, RAT POISON FROM MILLERS HARDWARE STORE, SEWING NEEDLES FROM CARLINS FIVE AND DIME, ASSORTED CHOCOLATES AND A PECK OF APPLES FROM ANDERSONS GROCERY AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST A LARGE AND RATHER FEARSOME LOOKING MIXED BREED MUTT FROM THE DOG POUND.HALLOWEEN WAS  APPROACHING AND AS SHE  PREPARED FOR THE OCCASION BY CAREFULLY UNWRAPPING EACH PIECE OF CANDY CUTTING A SLIT AND INSERTING A MEASURE OF RAT POISON  INSIDE, SHE THOUGHT TO HERSELF HOW APPROPRIATE RAT POISON FOR THE LITTLE VERMIN. NEXT SHE DONNED A THIMBLE AND PUSHED A NEEDLE INTO EVERY APPLE, ALL THE TIME THINKING THESE WILL STICK TO THEIR RIBS, AND FINALLY STARVING THE POOR DOG UNTIL IT WAS RAVENOUS, NEVER YOU MIND SHE TOLD THE PITIFUL CREATURE SOON YOU CAN HAVE ALL THE FRESH MEAT YOU CAN EAT.MATILDA COULD HARDLY WAIT FOR HALLOWEEN TO ARRIVE SO EAGER WAS SHE TO EXACT HER REVENGE FOR  THE YEARS OF TORMENT THAT SHE HAD ENDURED. THE NIGHT WAS AT LAST UPON HER AND SHE ACTUALLY QUIVERED WITH ANTICIPATION WAITING FOR THE FIRST KNOCK ON HER DOOR. TIME PASSED AND GRADUALLY SHE BECAME A LITTLE DROWSY, SO SHE SAT DOWN IN HER CHAIR AND PROMPTLY NODDED OFF. A LOUD KNOCK WAKENED HER WITH A START,ABOUT TIME SHE CHORTLED NOW THE FUN STARTS. HOW WRONG SHE WAS. GRASPING THE BOWL OF APPLES SHE FLUNG THE DOOR OPEN AND SAW STANDING THERE WHAT SHE ASSUMED TO BE A RATHER LARGE TRICK OR TREATER YOU'RE A LITTLE OLD TO BE BEGGING FOR TREATS I MUST SAY MATILDA EXCLAIMED, ON THE CONTRARY I'M  NOT HERE TO BEG, I'M HERE BECAUSE OF YOUR EVIL PLAN  MATILDA, WE WOULD NEVER ALLOW YOU TO HARM A CHILD, THROUGH THE YEARS THIS NIGHT HAS EVOLVED FROM ONE OF EVIL TO ONE OF JOY AND THOSE OF US WHO HAVE EXISTED DURING THESE CHANGES  PREFER TO KEEP THINGS AS THEY ARE. NOW WHEN WE GO ABOUT ON THIS NIGHT WE BLEND IN  AND CAN SHARE THE FUN AND A LITTLE MISCHIEF IT'S TRUE BUT NOTHING SO HARMFUL AS HURTING A CHILD .IN TIMES PAST  I WOULD SIMPLY HAVE PUT AN END TO YOU, BUT  THE CENTURIES  HAVE MELLOWED ME AND NOW  I  BELIEVE  I  HAVE A  MORE APPROPRIATE PUNISHMENT, YOU SHALL BECOME WHAT YOU SO  DESPISE AND WITH THAT ROSE THOMPSON WAS GONE AND IN HER PLACE STOOD LITTLE ROSIE THOMPSON. CAN WE GO TRICK OR TREATING SHE ASK IMPATIENTLY?  IN A MOMENT HONEY, FIRST I HAVE A FEW THINGS TO TIDY UP, THE APPLES AND CANDY SIMPLY VANISHED, THE DOG WAS RELEASED AND BEGAN HAPPILY DEVOURING A LARGE BOWL OF KIBBLE, WELL I BELIEVE WE CAN GO NOW IF YOU’RE READY MATTIE. LETS GO  I LOVE HALLOWEEN SAID MATTIE  ME  TOO  DEAR  ME  TOO !
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