The 31st Trick-or-Treater
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Started reading October 25, 2025
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He passes the empty Old Pine Elementary School, which last year had been set up as a fun haunted house. This year, it’s still empty.
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Right now, the splotch of video shows a big room with white cork ceiling, white painted cinderblock walls, and a purplish-gray, flecked tile floor.
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Stacks of Mom’s books sit on the end table, all about grief and God.
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“An unkind word,” Dad would say.
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Joann sees Bob and offers him a genuine smile. “You slept in today. Were you out last night?”
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knotting
I live in your walls (real) (go check)
Wicked
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Bob’s grateful for his viewers, and not just because the ad revenue keeps him from draining his and Joann’s savings.
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“Is this another dumb story that ends with ‘deez nuts?’”
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His old classmate Calvin is dead. Mary might end up dead, too.
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He thought there’d be at least some leftover haunt decorations from Crimson Corridors.
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atop
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What matters is that someone was wearing a sweatshirt—with the hood up—in the Richmond area in July and August. Between the humidity and the ninety-five degree days, that was insane.
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He panics for a second that he’s forgotten something, but that’s been a common feeling this past year.