(500 words)

The grey smokey clouds covered the fresh sky into darkness.

I stare out of my room window,gawping at the empty shop at the corner of my block appeared once again this year,opened with the same name board 'PORTIONS INC',with its dark blond letters.

I sigh.

This time I'm gonna check it out!..

I can't bear my curiosity anymore..

Wearing my sneakers and grabbing my bag pack,I march towards the back door.

My parents were asleep long ago while I waited for their snoring,to escape out of my house.My eagerness had overwhelmed me since the day I asked my parents about the shop and they have ignored to answer and just warned me to forget about it.

As I stop infront of the spooky ,dark rather desolated shop,I find the rusty old gates were open.The lane seems lonely and secluded to spend sometime on my own exploring this weird shop which was mostly ignored by the entire village.

I pace forward as the strange rustling noise occurs in the drowsy atmosphere.

"This shop seems like its almost haunted "I whisper into the thin cold air.

Touching the old wooden door,I push it open but,failing at the first attempt I give another try while the old musky aroma of something weird enters my nostrils.

As I enter inside the room,the door suddenly bangs shuts freaking me and covering the entire room with doomed darkness.

"Welcome to 'PORTIONS INC''a creepy voice whisper behind my ear and I cringe when I turn around and find no one around me.

My stomach cramped fresh terror reared up.

"A-anyone here?".

"You shouldn't have entered in here until you have dared to,"the voice whispers sending chills down my spine."Since you have dared your going to face the challenge tonight !".

My throat tightened.

"Wha-what do you mean and who are you!?".

The raspy voice bursts into a weird scary laugh making the blood in my veins run cold and the whistles, sending shivers down my body,causing goosebumps on my skin.

"TRICK OR TREAT!"A weezy cackling  voice rose higher all of a sudden ,a face that takes my breath showing up in the yellow hue light.Grotesquely looking with zombie- green skin,with vulturous nose, its serpentine eyes gleaming furiously with malice makes my soul hit the ceiling terrified.

Within a blink of an eye,the floor underneath digs into a hollow pit letting me fall,screaming into the deep darkness.

Panic surged through me,fear spiking and heart hammering against ribcage,I could feel nothing but blind terror.

I flinch with pain, when I land inside huge pot filled with water.I sit froze in gruesome when I see group of green fatuous witches gathered in a crowd.Skulls,charms and skeletons encompassing the grisly scene.

My fear turned into horror when one of the beastly looking witches with knotted hair and misshapen nose gravelly hiss,catching its sight on me.

"Our Feast Is READY!"


© Hazma Razak