My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat HaulLuvingToHateU goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as Thing Two (the cat in the hat).
bagel_hell gives you 14 white passionfruit-flavoured nuggets.
burdenedmind tricks you! You get a rotten egg.
jaws_8218914 tricks you! You get an eraser.
unspokenfury gives you 12 light yellow spearmint-flavoured wafers.LuvingToHateU
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As a boy his father had told him of liquor and what it did. "First," he recalled his father's horse smokers voice, "alcohol will kill the 'worry' part of the brain. A little more gets the 'stress' part, but it takes much more and many years to kill the 'sad' and 'memory' parts." Years the young man didn't want to wait. Sorrow, was his nemesis now. His heart fed the sorrow with every beat. The only thing worse was the memories. Everyone said he did the right thing when he ducked. The bullet didn't hit him and he was alive. But, he was no longer whole.
"What about the guilt you old bastard!" he screamed at his fathers grinning face at the bottom of the bottle. "When does that go? She's gone! Oh yes she is gone, and it's my fault. I wanted to go to town; I took her to the dammed bar.... And I hid on the floor. Like the man you wanted me to be eh Daddy? I guess you were right after all, I didn't listen to you, I didn't care." He stumbled into the tall grass on the hill that overlooked the town. "Are you happy now?" he asked the night sky. It didn't answer. Enraged he threw the now empty bottle upwards as he fell back. "Left me have you? Well I won't give you the satisfaction." On his third swing he managed to roll over turning his back to the sky. Reaching into his pockets he pulled out her picture. "I'm sorry Emiline, everyone was right about me, but I'll meet you again."
The entire town heard it. Some were woken from a sound sleep; others turned and looked still awake. No one cared to look until morning. The Mounties still don't know how he got in the evidence locker to take it, still holding one round from that winter past. The sun rose and warmed the Earth but she wore a mask of gray. They found him face down, holding that cold iron lying on a pillow and in sheets of rare May snow. All those who felt this snow truly did. Not since has it fallen soft and warm.
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