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-- I REMEMBER WHAT YOU DID LAST HALLOWEEN --

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"Oh Carson, I think I jus saw a g-" Lysa, my lovely date to the Halloween masquerade party, stammered out her incredulous observation in abject fear before her eyes rolled up into her head and fainted dead away on to the bed with a long trailing sigh. Now I was the only one still standing to face the spectral apparition of someone I knew very well as she once again entered the world of the living. A chill crawled up and down my spine and I could smell the bouquet of ocean water that  suddenly infused with the still night air. It was Grace...

"Hello novio." Her voice sounded otherworldly and somewhat distorted as if she was speaking from underwater and beneath the blue waves of the Pacific... "It's so good to see you my dear, how sweet, you've kept some of my things..." The half-bodied specter of my raven haired love gestured to the omnipresent glasses she wore in life that I saved from our last fatal encounter propped between the seasonal sugar skulls. "Though tonight I came for the purpose of reminiscing with you, my love, of that lovely night a year ago. Yes querido, I remember what you did last Halloween. Will you be doing the same with this lovely girl?"

I can see where this line of questioning from my past was going...

"So when you tire of this one, will you apply the cruel wire to her throat in the climax of her intimate passion with you, too? Will you then wrap her in a tarp and throw her spent empty shell over the side of a boat like you did to me? Sending her down to the depths of the Pacific like discarded bilge trash? Well I know you won't - because I won't let you. Tonight you are going to find out what it's like to have your corpse picked clean by the scavengers of the sea. You will get to experience that sensation firsthand, my darling. So embrace me like you did that night a year ago, come dance with me as lovers do to the romantic sounds of the crashing ocean. Dance as if it were a prelude to our ultimate passion. It's time for you to come away with me tonight - and then you'll be with me forever, my love...

I could only stare in rapt horror as her ghostly arm and outstretched hand reached out to me...