She wasn't a fan of Candy Corn. Didn't like it. Given that she had only tried it once and when she was a child. But back then She didn't really get what the whole hopela about them was. Why the other kids in her class liked them. Back then she would have described the taste as nasty, cardboard like taste. They had a weird nasty texture to them. She remember spitting them out and never ate another one again. When she went Trick or treating when she was little she would go though her bag at the end of the night and throw away all the candy corn that she had been giving. And here she was with a bag of them in her hands on her way home. She had went out to look for a costume to wear for this year. She was hoping that there would be a party that could go to. She usually just buy a costume every hear and take pictures. Or take the neighbors kids trick or treating. She would get the occasional look of "Aren't too old for that?" But she didn['t care what anyone said or thought of her. They could judge all they want. You only live once.

She had went to the local Halloween store and played around with the scary decorations that they had. Afterwards she would have went on the hunt for a costume. It was one decoaration that had caught her eye. It was made to look like a corn field. Fake corn all lined a corner of the store. They were high up to the celing. It actually took half the store. It was also made to appear to be a maze. People were going inside of it. Most of them were parents shouting out their kids name trying to find them among the field. She didn't know why but she decided to go though the corn field maze. She eventually found herself in the center of the maze. There was a creepy looking scarecrow in the center of it. He, for some reason was in the center of some kind of ring with candles also circling it. It looked liked some sacrificial circle or something.

"Man they are really going all out this year."

She stepped up to the scarecrow to get a better look at it and noticed that it was holding a basket. Inside the basket were candy corn. There was also a note indicating that they were free for anyone and to take as much as you need. She took a whole hand full and put them in a pocket Free was free. Besides she wanted to give them anther try and see if her taste buds were any different this time around. She made her way out of the maze and continued to look for a costume.

She really didn't have any luck finding a costume. She had a few ideas and found some to hopefully comeback to. It was pretty late when she had made her way home. She was so tired. She brushed her teeth and changed into her pjs. She got under the covers and went to sleep.

She woke up in the middle of the night to some kind of noise. She turned on her bedside lamp. The candy corn that she had gotten from the Halloween store were all laid out on the floor. They were formed in the same circle that the scare crow had around it.

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There was something in the center of them. It was a Gremlin. It was shaped liked a candy corn. It bared it's teeth at her and jumped on the bed and bite her.

"Ouch."

She tried to grab it but it was already gone. There was a bite mark on her leg of where it had bitten her. She didn't get a chance tp investigate it further cause all she remember was it wasn't night anymore and she was in the kitchen with the sugar jar in her hands. The jar half empty.

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