{"id":1734,"date":"2012-10-30T00:06:29","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T00:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/shortstories\/?p=1734"},"modified":"2017-08-08T19:31:44","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T19:31:44","slug":"the-sack-by-p-thompson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/shortstories\/the-sack-by-p-thompson\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sack by P. Thompson"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/h1>\n

The Sack<\/h1>\n

by P. Thompson<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cGimme all your Halloween candy, twerp,\u201d the teenager growled as he stepped out of the shrubbery by the cemetery, blocking the path of a boy dressed in a ghost costume. The adolescent raised his rubber skull-mask from off his pizza face and balled his free hand into a fist. \u201cIf you don\u2019t hand it over, I\u2019ll cram this knuckle sandwich through your buck teeth!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been out collecting this stuff since dusk,\u201d the phantom yelled, and bravely clutched the sack tighter in his hands. \u201cI ain\u2019t giving up my pickings without a fight! What makes you think I have anything you\u2019d want anyway?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re cruising for a bruising, squirt. Don\u2019t you know who I am? I\u2019m Mike, leader of the Enforcers at the middle school. It\u2019s sort of an after school disciplinary program,\u201d he bragged.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, you\u2019re a big galoot in a gang that thinks<\/i> he\u2019s somebody. That\u2019s supposed to make me afraid of you. Maybe you don\u2019t know who I am.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re a dweeb dressed up in your momma\u2019s old bed sheet, that\u2019s who you are. I clobber creeps like you into the ground for exercise. Now, fork over the sack or I\u2019ll pound you!\u201d Then Mike snatched the bag from the ghost\u2019s hands.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wouldn\u2019t open that if I was you,\u201d the specter exclaimed! \u201cStealing is a sin, especially on Halloween! Real spooks are out on Halloween looking for sinners to feed on. They\u2019ll gobble you up.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBull crap. You\u2019re full of it, pea-brain. I\u2019ll gobble up all your<\/i> treats and make you watch.\u201d Mike jeered, and then he rammed his hand into the sack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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