We decided to take a shortcut home through the graveyard. We’d been warned it was dangerous, of course, but what better night than Halloween?
The path was lit by the light of the full moon through the skeletal branches, and leaves crunched under our feet as we held hands. We felt a thrill, but no fear as we passed the stone markers of our antecedents.
We didn’t even know about the escaped killer until the next day, when they found his body hidden in the bushes, trampled to death and surrounded by skeletal footprints.

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