She turned. The figure wore no costume. It wore Cara’s own face—paler, older, with hollows where joy used to live.
Instead, she took the mirror, shattered it against the sycamore, and whispered the town’s oldest prayer: “Let the dead walk one night, but let the living leave by dawn.”
The fog rolled into Creekmaw just after sunset, thick as old linen and twice as cold. Cara pulled her cloak tighter, boots squelching on the rain-softened path. Lanterns flickered from crooked porch posts—carved pumpkins grinning with secrets rather than light.
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“Every year,” Cara replied. “What do you want this time?”
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The doppelgänger smiled. “Not want. Remember. Someone has to.”
From its pocket came a small mirror, rimed with frost. In its glass, Cara saw Creekmaw as it truly was: drowned church steeples, lanterns floating on black water, children waving from beneath the soil.
The fog ate her words. The doppelgänger nodded once and crumbled into dry leaves. Instead, she took the mirror, shattered it against
Creekmaw had always been the kind of town that forgot itself between autumns, but tonight, the forgotten things remembered her . A child’s laugh echoed from the cemetery gate. No child had lived on that road for thirty years.
She didn’t scream. She never did.
This Halloween felt different. Heavier.
Cara stopped at the crossroads where the old sycamore split toward heaven and underworld both. Someone had left a wreath of dried marigolds and black feathers at its roots. She didn’t touch it. She knew better.