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Veronica Amber had no recollection of her
first encounter with the wisps that came as

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inconspicuous and unexpected, like flurries of
indoored dust that float and fly when bathed

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by a sheen of sunlight. At
the beginning of their residence at three fifteen

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Copacitic Lane, just before their street
transitioned into the main road in town.

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Her home knew a time when it
was vacant of the whisps, and the

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only specters filling the inside of their
projections from the old films that her father

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would display on dark velvet walls of
the house. The walls of their victorian

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used to hold no haunting tendrils of
their existence. The hallways heard no shrills

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or cuttle walls from a life silenced
by death, and the marble floor of

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their historic home at one point had
less of a tendency to send shivers up

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one's another reagions and into the spine. The whisps were invisible inhabitants of their

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home, but to the rest of
the world they were simply called ghosts.

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Veronica Amber's acquaintance with them was far
from the horror filled nonsense she'd read about

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in books. And watched in movies. For the more the whists made themselves

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known to her, the more annoyed
she became. It seemed they were always

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around, causing mischief, popping out
at the most inconvenient times, and filling

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her ears with macab groans in the
dark in an attempt to inflict fear into

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her soul when she only wanted to
have a good night's sleep. And since

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then she had scarcely known a moment's
peace. Veronica Amber, or Vam,

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as she liked to be called,
awoke on Halloween morning with an abrupt opening

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of her eyes. She lay on
her back in her attic room, watching

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the warmth of the dawning sun changed
the color of her slanted ceiling. She

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heard a shuffling of feet, moved
her eyes to the foot of the bed,

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and there stood a lady Wisp looking
at her with a cocked head,

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her spaghetti strands of hair falling onto
a ghostly shoulder where the clavicle and humorous

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were exposed underneath decayed and stretched out
torn skin. This particular wisp never bothered

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Vam like the others did, but
the gaze she gave her always made her

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feel uncomfortable. Because she knew the
apparition was trying to say something through those

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glassy, unblinking eyes. Perhaps it
was due to the dislocated jaw and missing

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tongue that kept her from saying what
was on her mind, but regardless,

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Vam had no time to feel sorry
for something that had the same design as

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a fart in the wind. It's
Halloween today, Peprika, Vam said,

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lifting her head from the pillow and
using her elbows to hold her up as

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she faced the wisp. A Van
named all the wisps after spices, and

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Peprika happened to fit this specific one. Not only that, but it's my

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last time as host now that I'm
eighteen. After this, I'm relieved of

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all duties. Vam gave a quick
stretched and moved her body into a sitting

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position on the side of her bed. She felt the moist hot fogs around

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her feet, and when she looked
down, she glanced at the open mouth

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of a Reggano, an older wisp
who was bodiless and used as old man

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head to roll around their home.
His gurgly, foaming mouth was stretched wide

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in an expression that would make any
normal humans soil themselves and fright. His

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crackly lips clung around Vam's feet,
leaving strands of ghostly saliva on her ankles.

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Vam rolled her eyes and wiggled her
toes, visible through the rotted eyelids

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of his head, and she kicked
him, making him vanish into nothing.

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You're disgusting, she muttered, moving
toward the bathroom. Before she reached the

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toilet time, a young boy,
Whisp, who looked about six or seven,

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popped up from the floor and shrieked
like a band sheh. She gasped

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more from the suddenness of it than
from fright as his face collided into hers,

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and before she had a moment to
swat him away, he disappeared.

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Time was the one who bothered her
the most in as many endeavors to frighten

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her, and failing to do so, it made him the one she also

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felt closest to, almost like a
little annoying brother, but with maggots crawling

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out of his nose and ears.
It was in the alone hours of the

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morning that Vam felt the most connected
to the house. Her parents, who

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taught night classes at Nick's University,
remained asleep for the majority of the day

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and It was in their solitude that
she learned to speak to the house.

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Just one touch to a chimney stone
or a beam of wood was enough for

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the house to remind and speak to
her about how it was before their wisps

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had occupied the space. She would
get images of her mother and father,

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and their pale faces contrasted with the
black exterior of the home. The oldest

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and most abandoned neglected house on Copasetic
Lane was the one they had imprinted on.

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Could it be genetics? Her father, Professor Victor Ambrose Prior asked one

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night during dinner over his stake Flambay, many years ago, when VAM had

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confided in him about the wisps.
When we adopted you, we knew at

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some point your health would become a
source of worry for us. He said,

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well, that is a possibility,
my dear, but we must also

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not real out the screen time.
Her mother, doctor Vivian Amelia Prior,

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had said, placing a cold paled
hand on Vam's forehead, that new iPad

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we got you for Christmas has become
a bit of an addiction for you,

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darling. Are you sure you aren't
hallucinating these images? A young Vam had

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smiled at them, half lovingly and
half disappointed. That her parents couldn't see

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the wisps, she shook her head. No, mother, I'm not imagining

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them there as real as you and
I father. I can touch them,

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I can smell them, but when
I try to scream, they disappear.

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At this point, being scared isn't
an option. I just want them to

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leave me alone. Her mother's plumb, lipstick stained mouth formed a sympathetic frown.

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I'm so sorry, dearest, I
wish there was something we could do

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to make it go away. That
had been many years ago, and since

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then numerous whisps had appeared to her, as real and as vexatious as ever,

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for better or for worse, but
not for long. Come springtime,

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when Van was due to graduate,
she'd leave her home seething with whisps,

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to start a new life and leave
the nest, a phrase her father despised

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and regarded with contempt pishposh. He
always said when that phrase was uttered.

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We aren't eagles, for goodness sake, So I want no more talk about

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leaving nest and whatnot. I am
my darling. I couldn't be prouder of

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the person that you become and the
one you are yet to be. And

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like any father, I'm disconsolate at
the idea of seeing you go, but

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exhilarated at the prospects that await you. Not flesh of our flesh, nor

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blood of our blood, but once
you were handed into our arms, the

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darling child with the eyes as dark
as coal, who appeared to us as

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a stranger, suddenly became the most
beloved daughter. A most beloved daughter rang

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in Vam's head, and she dressed
herself for the day. In the mirror,

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a young girl, Wisp, who
Vam had named Coryander manifested herself beside

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Vam. She opened her mouth and
let out a shrill scream that penetrated the

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ear drums with a searing intensity,
and Vam covered her ears, but ignored

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her, and quickly placing a clip
on her hair, before making her way

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downstairs to finish the preparation for the
night's Halloween party. A most beloved daughter,

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she thought to herself again, and
a most beloved host. And when

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Vam was a young girl, shortly
after the priors had adopted her, she

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was given the responsibility of hosting a
Halloween evening in their home. Mommy and

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Daddy have to sleep, dearest and
can only join later in the evening.

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Once we awaken, who will be
there to entertain our guests. Well,

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that is where you come in,
said her mother. But I'm only a

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child, Van had objected. Well, that works to ir advantage, darling.

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Her mother had said, kneeling to
her level and pressing her pale forehead

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to Vam's, they are more likely
to trust you, and so they did.

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Every Halloween evening, the priors would
appoint Van to welcome guests and passing

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trick or treaders to their home.
At the beginning, guests would question her

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on the whereabouts of her parents,
to which Van would reply, no worries,

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they're resting and we'll be with you
shortly For dinner. In the kitchen,

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Van started the hor d'oeuvres, baked
brye made to look like mommy and

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She's and cracker platter with bat and
jack o lanern cutouts, a bowl of

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checks mix and candy for a monster
munch, and guacamole with vegetables arranged to

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look like the face of a witch. It was all coming together, and

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it was still hours to go until
lunch time. By the time it was

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sundown, Vam had decorated and set
the food in the dining room. A

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meat loaf shape to resemble the anatomy
of a human body was left cooling on

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the counter when she went upstairs to
change, and she opted for a simple

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black dress that hugged her slender frame. And putting on the final touches of

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her makeup, she heard a wheezing
echoy sound behind the curtain of her shower.

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Pushing the curtain back, Time jumped
at her, squealing and laughing as

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she went through her body and exited
out the bathroom door another wisp. A

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young looking male around Vam's age stood
staring at her underneath shower head. A

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harsh cut to the throat revealed a
sliced trachea Vam's side and crossed her arms.

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Do you think you can keep it
down, Nutmeg? Our guests are

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due to arrive soon, and the
wheezing is distracting. Nutmeg said nothing but

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nodded, watching Vam rolled her tube
of lipstick back in. You're lucky,

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you're a handsome one, even more
of a looker, before Van turned back

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to him, her hand on the
light switch of the bathroom, you know.

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She used her index finger to swipe
under her throat in a slashing manner.

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The sound of the doorbell below made
Van return to her responsibilities, and

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with a clap of her hand,
she turned off the light and clambered down

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the stairs, remembering the meat loaf
and placing it on the table. Before

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reaching the entrance, she stopped in
the fourrier, where above the grinning candlelit

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jack O lantern hung pictures of the
hosts that came before her, The other

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priors, her sisters, the sisters
she had never met, the sisters who

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had left to start a new life
at eighteen once the new host was chosen,

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just like she would in the springtime, the sisters who had taken the

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same vow their parents had taken when
they were each adopted into the family.

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We will take care of you if
you will take care of us, they

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had said. None of the previous
prior daughters had been hosts at three fifteen

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Copasetic Lane, when their nomadic parents
state to claim on the property, Vam

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had been the first one. With
each passing year of Vam's life, she

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was slowly coming to terms with the
truth about why the wisps were part of

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their home and why they were visible
only to her. Vam doesn't remember her

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first encounter with a wisp, but
she remembers when Pepperica, who in her

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previous life was called Monica, entered
in her fleshly human form as a guest

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in their home. And Oreganea,
who was once mister Frank's her English teacher

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time, used to be Spencer,
a classmate she would play with in elementary

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school, and was the first guest
she entertained in her first year as a

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host. Nutmeg was a package delivery
worker who thought Vam looked rather pretty standing

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on the porch of her house and
her black dress. Last Halloween. He

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went up the steps to introduce himself
and entered, and unbeknownst to him that

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he would not be coming back out. The whisps were who they were because

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they had all made the decision to
be guests at three fifteen Copacetic Lane.

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What bound them together other than death
was their decision to trust Vam. Another

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ring of the doorbell sounded in the
fourier coming. Vam called out, straightening

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her dress. Opening the door,
she came face to face with a group

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of tricker treaters, young and old
friend groups and families. No one wanted

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to miss out on the opportunity to
sneak a peek inside the old, creepy

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Victorian house that sat like a tempting
siren on copacetic Lane. Hello, she

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exclaimed, putting on an unnaturally inviting
grin as she opened a door. We've

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got candy for your buckets, and
if you'd like to stay, we have

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snacks and food. We hope you
can join us for a while this evening.

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Stepping aside, she allowed the group
of guests to walk into the fourrier,

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directing them with her arm toward the
parlor in the formal dining room.

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A murmur of excitement washed over the
crowd, and they stepped over each other

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and pushed bodies away to be the
first one to explore the house, and

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within a few minutes, the parlor
was full of guests, socializing with each

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other, stuffing their faces with VAM
snacks and cooked meals, and taking pictures

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with their phones of the interior of
the house and ooing and eyeing like museum

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lovers. VAM stood and watched the
energy that filled the room, and,

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with no friends or relatives to invite
over the prior house was for the most

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part empty and deprived of visitors.
Halloween night was the only time when people

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wilfully lighted themselves over without arousing suspicion. Outsiders who saw the crowd beckoning to

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the front door of the prior house
didn't have to think twice about coming to

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a conclusion to explain the number of
people entering the abode. It's Halloween,

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they'd say, with a shrug.
Halloween's for friends and strangers to come and

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knocking a perfect cover up. As
many of the moocher played in the room,

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causing an uproar with people singing along. Vam slinked away from the parlor

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and ambled over to a door leading
to the basement. Pitch black darkness swallowed

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up any traces of the light from
the main floor. As she squinted in

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her eyes to see what was below. Father, mother, she called out

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quietly, it's time to wake up. Our guests are here. The early

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bat catches the worm. She heard
a stirring in the darkness, and then

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heard her father speak Hello, darling, as the black tarp laid out in

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the parlor. Yes, sir,
every year I get compliments about the noise

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that it makes when they walk on
top of it, But no grievances from

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this group so far. They're a
pretty good crowd. Not a drop of

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blood will make its way to the
marble floors and the doorbell, camera and

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projector. Have you tested that out? It works like a charm. I

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tried it earlier in the projection of
myself passing the sidewalk and coming up the

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steps was reversed perfectly to make it
look like I came back down. Anyone

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watching our home, we'll see our
guests leave after the evening is over.

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Her mother spoke, now, have
you prepared the needles and the collection bags?

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Yes, mother, they're beside the
plastic bends that hold the peroxide and

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bleach and enzymes solvents we use for
clean up. All the backup freezers have

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been up and running since this morning. I counted at least forty people who

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arrived. Once we break apart like
ants, it should be enough to fit

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everyone without taking up space in the
basement. It's quite a bit of burgers

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and steak flambeys ready for us to
enjoy for another year. I hope we

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have more o negatives than we did
last Halloween. The flavor, and the

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sauces we made just wasn't the same
without their kick. Her father gave out

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a dark chuckle. Should we wear
the things I got for us three years

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ago? My love? He spoke
to his wife. Why ever would we

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want to do that? She responded. Vam couldn't see her father shrug,

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but felt him do so. It's
Halloween. If the people want to see

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Count Dracula, then who am I
to deny them that pleasure? They'll be

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busy screaming, Dearest Veronica Amber.
Has everyone sipped their refreshments, Vam nodded

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yes. Mother. In about three
minutes, the anesthetic solution will take full

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effect. If you and father want
to make a show of your entrance,

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it had better be quick before you
lose them. Well, that's a good

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girl, and now run along and
see that our guests are enjoying. The

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party will be there very soon.
Vam closed the door and walked to the

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kitchen. She opened a drawer that
held all the knives she had used in

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previous years. She grabbed a hold
of a meat cleaver. This baby was

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her favorite, made it easier to
cut through the skin and bone. She

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glanced over her shoulder and saw that
the wisps of her home had gathered around

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her, all the ones she conjured
by the work of her own hands.

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She gave them a sly smile,
ready for some new roomies. Shutting the

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drawer with her hip, she walked
past the wisps who were protesting. Hiding

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the meat cleaver behind her, she
clenched it behind the shoulder blades of her

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back and used her free hand to
mute the music. All the eyes of

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her guests looked at her, with
their ears perked and bodies frozen. I

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Am smiled at them and gave her
final announcement of the night. I just

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wanted to give you all the big
thanks and a grand welcome to our humble

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little home. My name is Van
Pryor, and I'll be your host for

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the evening.