Halloween-Shine(s)

A Story by Abishai100

A very offbeat 'extra human' tale of Halloween in Haddonfield, featuring an 'allusion' for contact-materialism.

A Halloween 'aura' fable.

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Amlan and Ezzy settled into their Haddonfield-Jersey town for the Halloween season, having moved from New England to create a new life together while guarding the secret that Ezzy, Amlan's girlfriend, was actually a Martian (non-human). However, they'd not disclose this 'dark' secret to anyone, especially in this mod-Homeland (American) social-media 'commentary' culture of those pesky 'incomplete-distances' to pedestrianism/lifestyle ornamentation (for 'personality' hyperbole!).

What's unusual about this tale from the dark-side of the consciousness is not the ideation that Ezzy was a (secret/private) Martian, humanoid in appearance, and (really) in-love with Amlan (her human boyfriend). What's the real 'spice' of pumpkin-pie bizarreness for hospitality-readings in the Homeland (America) concerns the 'door-knock Amlan/Ezzy received on Oct.-30, the night before Halloween, which is known as 'Devil's Night' in Haddonfield (wow).

STRANGER: Knock, knock, Mr./Mrs.

AMLAN/EZZY: Do we know you?
STRANGER: Can't you see I seek greetings on Devil's Night, Mr./Mrs.?

AMLAN/EZZY: So, why're you masked before Halloween, stranger?
STRANGER: I mean to scare some religion into you, Mr./Mrs.

AMLAN/EZZY: For what form, stranger (wow)?
STRANGER: Cinema (thanx).

What did this stranger want by knocking with this omen-rich message for Amlan/Ezzy in the Homeland (Haddonfield)? Why'd he come masked on Devil's Night, insisting he meant to 'inject' some religion into their lives of 'ordinary' consciousness? Of course, Amlan/Ezzy had prepared for an 'ordinary' Halloween season after moving-into their Haddonfield house in early-October (surely). Amlan was reading Thomas Mallory that night (Oct.30) and Ezzy had just finished up her house-decorations for the next-day trick-or-treaters, so all was well (really).

STRANGER: I'll pardon your residence if you reveal a 'treasured' secret!

AMLAN/EZZY: Why'd we consider this a command for forgiveness?

STRANGER: I know you're new to Haddonfield; and I represent a clan.

AMLAN/EZZY: We're to 'shock' you with a revelation to warrant passing?

STRANGER: Right-o; and this 'shock' can't simply be a 'toy-treasure' gift.

AMLAN/EZZY: Wow...even for pre-Thanksgiving/Xmas consumerism.

STRANGER: You've 30 minutes...I'll wait in your porch (silently), friends.

AMLAN/EZZY: Alright (thanx).

The stranger was 'shocked' in value/weight, when Amlan drafted a letter reading, "Ezzy/I moved into Haddonfield and seek to settle and live peacefully/quietly as 'ordinary' patriots of America (Jersey) and keep-secret the 'truth' that Ezzy is a Martian in humanoid-form, and my true-love; perhaps this 'revelation' of a good-hearted trust-nature and signature warrants a sort of American residential 'traffic-pattern' pardon, given its social-media culture 'friendly' handshake for colloquial 'celebrations' of the outrageous/isolationists."

The Stranger accepted this bizarre letter and departed, but the very-next night, on Halloween Eve, while Amlan was playing piano, and Ezzy was gifting trick-or-treaters with Mars-candy, the Stranger reappeared, in the same mask, with a 'friend' in a different costume, this time with a different message for the 'extra-human' (American) couple.

STRANGERS: We kindly seek your happiness, for we accept this truth you're not (simply) humans but a man and a Martian living-together in our cool Haddonfield-area; hence, we mark your home/residence as a 'haven' or Citadel for what makes American residential areas a 'thing' of social-media 'friendly' bureaucracy (for the Ego).

After Halloween passed, Amlan generated a series of sci-fi invasion/colonization/fantasy inter-planetary fanfiction boards on the cyber-highway(s) and accented his 'marking' of housing/haven in dear Haddonfield as a miracle borne out of a revelation that simultaneously safeguarded Ezzy's 'dark' secret while 'shooing-away' those bizarre/masked 'Strangers' who apparently wanted some 'evidence' that new-residents required a 'social media' dazzle for 'accredited' Haddonfield-leave (for creativity?).