The Man Past the Fence | A Halloween Short Story
The Man Past the Fence A Halloween Short Story by The PoetOfSteel Sydney and I took one step back as Tom encouraged us to move one step forward towards Mr. Lived's house. "Why are you guys so scared? The dudes last name is Lived!" "That's backwards for Devil!" I told him. "Yeah, and you can smell the rotten corpses from here!" Sydney agreed. "Xander! Sydney! It's just Trick of Treating! He can't harm us!" "He could've poisoned the candy!" I reasoned. "He could take us in! As in, kidnapping! KIDNAPPING !" Wow. Sydney was really scared as well. And no way were we going in there! I quickly grabbed onto my Batman Batcape and covered everything about my face except my eyes. "We are NOT going in THERE !" I said in my Batman voice. Sydney nodded in agreement, her Wonder Woman tiara slightly shifting with her. "Scaredy cats!" Tom pulled a dumb move and ran to the door. "NO!...