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Eyes. She saw glowing eyes, staring at her from across the street. The man was at a window, watching her silently.

The girl swallowed and rang the doorbell of the house she was at. A woman wearing a witch’s hat answered.
“Trick or treat!” the girl said, holding up a pillowcase.
“Hello there! Happy Halloween!” the woman said, dropping a few pieces of candy in the girl’s bag. The girl grinned and walked away, examining the candy she’d just received.
The woman had given her a snicker’s bar and a reeses. She looked up at the window the man had been watching her from and felt the grin slide off her face. The man was still there, watching her in silence. She shuddered and moved on.

Amy was an angel that year, in a white dress with white feathered wings and a yellow pipecleaner halo over her head. The halo kept slipping. She had just picked it up after it fell from the floor when she noticed the man was gone. She sighed with releif and went onto the next house.

When the last few children were going home several hours later, Amy turned towards her house. She froze. A man was standing there, the same man that had been watching her from the window. In the dim light from the street lamps she saw him grin, and she ran. The man watched her silently as she rushed across the street.

The next morning Amy Weffer was reported missing. Her hysteric mother could be heard begging for Amy’s safe return over the news.
The man that lived across the street was at the window again, calmly eating a snickers bar and watching the rest of the children play in the street. Draped across a couch in the background was a white dress stained with something red.

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