Halloween hasn't completely left us yet...!

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You can always say there’s two sides to festivities: The amusing and the annoying.

For the ones who like the amusement it’s all fine and dandy, but for the ones who have to swallow the annoyance it only seems to get worse and worse as festivities seem to extend even beyond their own month.

It was still summer when Tucker said several heated and hateful things at that party, about how Halloween was already in the stores when the leaves were still green.

A witch was at the party and she loved Halloween, as you could expect, so she did what witches do put a horrible curse on the lousy man, a slow burn curse that would gain strength as the spooky night arrived.

Magic filled by spite that bit by bit wouldn’t make him like pumpkins and candy, but at the very least would make him match the celebrations heart.

But for him it began with just a barely annoying chill down the spine that didn’t vanished his smile or gave him any second thoughts.

...

Gradually, so it was hard to notice, yet slowly increasing in intensity as the trees grew their red and orange dresses.

Tucker soon became aware of the small things, like his joints feeling stiff, a constant oppression in his chest and an odd shine in the corners of the eyes.

The passing of the days only made it worse, with stronger symptoms, hair that kept growing, nails grew long, his nose pointy, his voice cracking.

It became a haggard paranoia that broke him down, he knew something was coming, yet nothing could be done to stop it, the man became distant from his close ones as that night came closer and closer.

And on that night... he came out of his house, hunched and disjointed, called by the night, he laughed loudly, scaring the kids, he sat down on the porch, clothes becoming long and dark, hair gray, skin green.

The toy witch stayed there all night, making loud and spooky sounds to anybody that came close, empty glowing green eyes, maybe when the night ended he would go back to being a man... but maybe that wouldn’t be frightening enough...