Unholy Cow by John H. Carroll

Author:John H. Carroll
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: trick or treat, short story, holy cow, halloween, free, jackolantern, indie author

“Ahh. I happen to have a pillowcase for the occasion.” Stryk pulled white cloth out from under his shirt. He brushed a few pieces of straw off it and handed it to Opal. It was just as big as her when she unfolded it. “It came off the biggest pillow I’ve ever seen. I went out specifically to get it tonight before coming here. Now knock on the door like a good little girl.”

“Okay.” Opal knocked on the door. It didn’t take long for an ancient-looking woman to open the squeaky door and stare at the child with big buggy eyes. “Trick or treat,” Opal said timidly, taking a step back.

The old woman turned her head to the side and looked at Opal with only one buggy eye. Then she put a candy bar in the pillowcase. Before Opal could say thank you, the old woman grabbed a handful of candy bars and put them in the pillowcase too. Then she turned her head to look at Opal with the other buggy eye before slowly closing the door with a long drawn out creak. It clicked shut and the sound of a latch came from the other side as it was locked.

“That went extremely well,” Runyx said happily. “Let’s go find another house.”

“I didn’t say thank you though,” Opal protested.

“You don’t have to say thank you to anyone tonight,” Runyx told her. “Be a rebel. If they tell you to say thank you, stick your tongue out at them.”

“I can’t do that,” Opal said in horror as they walked back down the dirt path.

“Sure you can. They should be thankful for the opportunity to give such a wonderful young girl candy. Stick your tongue out at them if they give you any problems about it,” Runyx insisted. They turned down the sidewalk and headed to the next house.

When the girl blinked, Runyx put them in front of a different house. It was brightly lit with orange and white lights. There were glowing pumpkins and ghost lights in the yard and cheerful looking spiders and vampire posters everywhere. “This is just disgusting,” Abel said in disgust, landing on a happy mummy poster staked in the yard. “Must everything be commercialized these days? I’m surprised the vampires don’t sparkle.”

Opal looked around in amazement as Stryk walked her up the sidewalk. Runyx stayed behind to keep an eye on things. Some of the kids looked at her oddly, but they didn’t say anything. A couple of teenagers came by and smacked her rump. “Hey! It’s a cow in the street. Let’s tip it over.”

Runyx’s favorite supernatural ability was the fact that her tail had bug zapper power in it, fifty times more powerful than the ones that people used to kill mosquitoes. She whapped both teens in rapid succession. The zapping sound her tail made was pleasing to her ears. Even more pleasing was the blue electricity that knocked them both on the ground where they lay twitching and glowing.

A cheerful woman wearing a blue Frankenstein wig was handing out candy at the door.

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