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Speaker 1: Welcome to micro Terrors, scary stories for kids where it's

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always the spooky season, full of chills, thrills and spine

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tingling spooks. Micro Terrors are family friendly frights for those

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ages eight and up, and while our stories are for

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younger years, we are still talking about things that go

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bump in the night, and some children may not be

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able to handle what others can. Parental consent is recommended

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now for tonights micro Terror.

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Speaker 2: Candy Dude by Scott Donnelly. Pink and red hearts cut

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from construction paper were stuck to the classroom walls. Cut

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out cupids were strung in the corners of the ceiling.

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It was another Valentine's Day and that meant only one

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thing for Roger Dove. It was another day of having

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his Valentine cards ripped up or laughed at. It was

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another day of denial and being ignored. It was his

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least favorite day of the entire year. Every Valentine's Day

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was the same for him. He'd write out cute little

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cards and hand them out to the other kids in

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his class, just like they all did. It was a

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tradition that Roger felt had run its course, forcing kids

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to hand out little love notes to others was a

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dreadful pastime. For some, it was fun and exciting, but

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for others, like Roger Dove, it was embarrassing and stressful.

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The girls all laughed at him, and the boys all

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made fun of him. Okay, class, the teacher announced, I

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think I have given everyone enough time to fill out

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their Valentines. We're going to get in a single file

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line and walk around the classroom. When you get to

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each desk, leave one of your cards on it for

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that student. Once we're done, we can all sit down

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and read them. Upon the teacher's instructions, the entire class

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formed the line near the front of the room, and

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when she gave the go ahead, the line began to move.

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Roger was near the back of the line, nervously setting

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a Valentine's card down on each desk as he and

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the line weaved through the classroom like a snake. Once

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it was done, everyone took their seats yet again. Only

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then did Roger Dove notice that his desk didn't have

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a single Valentine's card on it. He looked around the

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room at everyone else. They were all pointing and laughing

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at him. The boys were all hollering his name and

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mocking tones. The girl were making fake kissing faces at him.

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Roger stood up and screamed, I hate this holiday. I

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hate Valentine's Day. As his angered words were swallowed by

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the laughter and mocking Roger ran out of the classroom

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and down the empty school hallway. He turned the corner

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and burst into the boy's bathroom, where he collapsed on

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the floor and cried. He began to worry now that

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if someone were to walk in on him crying, his

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situation would only get worse. Roger stood up and wiped

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away the tears. He approached the mirror and looked at

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his red face, puffy eyes, and damp cheeks. He took

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a deep breath and tried to comfort himself. It's okay,

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he said to himself, You're okay. Suddenly in the mirror,

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a figure appeared behind him, seemingly out of nowhere. Startled

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Roger spun around to see the man standing there. It

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was mister Mersanto, the school's custodian. He stood there dressed

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in a blue jumpsuit and holding him in his hands.

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Speaker 3: You okay, kid.

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Speaker 2: Mister Mersado asked. Roger nodded, wiping away more tears that

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he felt tickling his face. Mister Mersado nodded. Valentine's Day.

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Speaker 3: Huh, he laughed, it's not friendly to everyone. Did some

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little girl break your heart?

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Speaker 2: Roger didn't respond. Mister Mersado glanced around the bathroom.

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Speaker 3: You know, I used to go to this school when

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I was your age. That was years ago now, but uh,

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it feels just like yesterday. We had to do that

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stupid tradition. Also handing out cards to other kids. No

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one ever liked my cards. They laughed at them, they

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mocked them. Some even tore them up right in front

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of me. Roger scrunched his face. What did you do,

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mister Mersado smiled.

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Speaker 1: I uh well.

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Speaker 2: He knelt down to one knee, meeting Roger at eye level.

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Then he whispered, I summoned the kid, dude. Roger's face

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can towart it even more, the candy dude. Mister Mersado nodded,

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smiling like he was remembering something from his past that

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pleased him. This school has a reputation, mister Mersado said,

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for some reason that Valentine's tradition has lasted for so

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long here, while other schools have done away with it completely.

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Every year kids are forced to participate, and like clockwork,

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there's always one kid who suffers. But within that suffering,

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something unnatural has also taken shape here in the school,

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the candy dude. Mister Mersado stood up and approached the

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mirror that Roger had just been looking into. To summon

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the candy dude. You repeat his name three times in

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the mirror, he'll appear, and if you truly are suffering,

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he'll know and take sweet crunchy revenge on your half.

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Mister Mersado then turned around and faced Roger. However, you

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must be one hundred percent sure you want to summon him.

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Once he is here, there's no stuffing him. Roger wasn't

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sure if what mister Mersado was telling him was true

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or not. His mind then referred back to the laughing,

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the mocking, the kissing faces. Oh how Roger dove hated

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Valentine's Day. Roger shoved mister Mersado out of the way

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and stood before the mirror, gripping a sink with both hands.

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Anger an impulse writhed within him, and he spoke directly

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into the mirror without hesitation. Candy Dude, Candy Dude, Candy Dude,

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The bathroom fell silent. Nothing seemed to happen at all.

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In the mirror, Roger could still see mister Mersado standing

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behind him holding his mop. Roger sighed. Not only had

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he been made out to feel unwanted by his classmates,

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but now this ghoula custodian had even become a tormentor.

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Roger spun around to confront mister Mersado, who wasn't here

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janitor i. But Roger stopped speaking, He almost stopped breathing.

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The mister Mersado that physically stood before him was not

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the same one that appeared near seconds ago in the mirror.

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His skin was wrinkled and wet like a soggy prune.

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His hair sprouted from his head like glistening red licorice.

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His eyes were large, sugary and unmoving, like those placed

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upon cupcake icing as decoration. His mouth was bulbous and

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resembled wax lips. In his hand, he gripped his mop,

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only now it was an oversized cake pop sweet crunchy revenge.

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Mister Mersado or the candy Dude, gurgled as a thick,

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chocolatey syrup leaped from between his wax lips. Roger was

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frozen in fear. He couldn't believe what he was looking at.

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The candy Dude turned and faced the bathroom door, his

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arms stretched out like taffy and opened it, and then

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he dashed out into the hallway, cackling like a maniacle madman.

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Roger raced after him, followed him around the corner and

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watched as the monstrous manifestation burst into the classroom. Roger

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stopped where he was as he heard dozens of kids

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scream out in horror. It was pure chaos. There were

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extra loud crunching sounds, gooey splats, and clamorous swallowing gulps.

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It all ended with a long, content and smug belch

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that rattled the hallway. Following the belch was silence. The

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candy Dude re entered the hallway from the classroom. He

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walked slowly toward Roger, who was shaking in his own skin,

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but instead of saying anything, he just continued past and

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disappeared back into the bathroom. Just then, the loud speaker

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high on the wall next to Roger squealed to life.

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The candy Dude's gurgly voice cracked over it. Clean up

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in classroom two one seven, Roger was unable to speak.

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He slowly faced the direction of his classroom room to

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one seven, the one that had just fallen victim to

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a feeding frenzy by a ghostly legend. The janitor's closet

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at the end of the hallway opened, and mister Mersado,

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the real mister Mersado, came out with a mop and

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rolling bucket. He rolled it into classroom two one seven

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and began to clean up the mess, a mess that

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he'd become all too familiar with year after year. Coming

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have a very happy, gooey, crunchy belchie Valentine's Day. Oh

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excuse me, I think I had too many candy hearts

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earlier today.

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