text: [Themes: horror, horror]
  
  It's Halloween night. Usually you would be trick-or-treating with your annoying brat of a sister, but as she's old enough to be out with her friends you can finally go out with your friends!
  
  Oh wait... you have none because you're a pathetic loser...
  
  Oh well! At least you don't have to babysit anybody! And tonight's gonna be the night that all changes! Tonight you're gonna dress in a costume so cool you'll get bagfuls of candy and every girl in school will want you!
  
  Yeah that was a nice delusional thought! As soon as you get down the sidewalk the school bully Randy and his cronies pin you down and begin to beat you mercilessly. The only thing stopping them from taking all your candy is that you don't have any candy. Apparently a sheet with two eyeholes cut in it is NOT a cool costume.
  
  "Ha ha ha! Look at this loser! He looks like a gay B-list version of Casper!" Randy laughs.
  
  "Yeah! Let's give him something to be really scared of!" one of his cronies laughs.
  
  [Author's Note: A short horror story where you're hazed on Halloween night. While others are trick-or-treating, you're involved in a fight for your life.]
  
  > wait and see what they have in store for you
  There's a argument between Randy and his friends as they decide what to do with you. Some of them want to just beat you until you resemble a walking corpse. Others want to lock you in a dumpster with meat and Randy's two pitbulls. Finally Randy gets the idea to lock you in the Mausoleum at Spinner's Cemetery for the night, to see how long you last before you run out crying and peeing yourself. At this point you get on your knees, sobbing hysterically. "No! Please!" you sob. "I don't wanna go in there!"
  
  At this point Randy kicks you as hard as he can in the face. "You're fucking pathetic!" he spits. "Alright, fine, it's either that or Old Man Jenkin's house."
  
  "The serial killer?" you cry.
  
  "Yep. Those two are your only options. Either that, or get beat down every day of your life until you graduate college!"
  
  So where will you choose to be locked up at?
  
  > The Mausoleum
  Randy and his friends drag you to Spinner's Cemetery, and two of his cronies drag the door open (it's a really old, unused mausoleum). Looking inside, you wonder if you'll even be able to breathe. What if there's some ancient virus floating around in the air? Too late to back out now. Randy pulls you up.
  
  "Now look! If you stay all night in there, we'll find someone else to pick on. If you don't... my foot will be so far down your throat you'll be shitting toenails for a week!" And with that last bit of encouraging advice, you are thrown into the mausoleum and the door is shut behind you. You enter into pitch-black darkness, and you feel your way down the corridor, before it suddenly stops.
  
  You seem to have arrived at a fork. To your right, you can actually see orange flickering light. Somebody's lit a fire down here! To your left is more darkness, and you have a crazy impulse to go that way: there's some creepy chanting coming from the right corridor.
  
  > go left
  No way are you going down the right corridor! With all the creepy chanting, odds are you'd run into someone who's worse than Randy! You feel your way down the corridor until you come into a room that has no roof and is illuminated by the moonlight. And there's a coffin in the middle of the room! You force yourself to calm down. It's only a dead person, and you can hide out here until morning.
  
  As you sit down with the coffin to your back, you take deep, calming breaths and think happy thoughts. Then, finally calm, you look up and see a ghost! You open your mouth to scream, but your mouth is forced shut by some invisible force. "Silence, mortal!" the ghost says, fat and ugly though he is, he's also REALLY mad. "How DARE you trespass in my mausoleum! Are you one of those cultists taking up space down the hall?" Frantically, you shake your head. So THOSE were the ones who had a fire lit! Despite what's happened, you're kind of glad you didn't go that way. The ghost frowns. "Who are you, then? Explain."
  
  You tell him about Randy and his friends locking you in here. The ghost gives you a wry smile. "Bullies, eh? I remember in my youth... but never mind. I will make you a deal. Get rid of the cultists and you may leave this mausoleum alive." You gasp. "How am I supposed to do that?" you exclaim. The ghost ponders that. "Well, if you let me possess you, I could use your body to kill them all. I would dispose of the bodies, of course, so you would not be blamed for murder." He nods impressively, proud of his "generosity."
  
  > let the ghost possess you
  There's no way you can take those cultists, and while you don't exactly trust the ghost, you don't want to die. You allow the ghost to possess you, and he storms into the room where the cultists are in the middle of sacrificing a cow's stomach over a fire. "DIE, MORTALS!" you scream. The heads of all the cultists explode! The ghost chuckles, then begins to make for the exit!
  
  "Hey wait," you say mentally, "this wasn't part of the deal!" The ghost laughs. "Our deal was that you would leave the mausoleum alive! We never agreed on when I would leave your body! After being in that crypt for so long, I deserve a little freedom!" The door swings wide open. Randy and his goons see you and jump to their feet. "GET HIM" Randy yells. They begin to beat you, which the ghost is NOT happy about! "DIE YOU FIENDS!" you roar and again cause mass explosions, blowing up their heads.
  
  Unfortunately, this second burst of ghostly energy is too much for your body, and your veins explode! The ghost goes back to his coffin, disappointed but happy that at least there's nobody around to bother him anymore. Which is true, because when the bodies of you, Randy, his friends, and the cultists are all found, it's labeled a "freak accident" and everybody stays far away. Of course, you don't know this, as you spend your final moments bleeding to death in agony and wishing you had just stayed home and watched TV.