The following
Halloween Story Contest 2023
story has themes of non-consent sex, humiliation, and other dark themes. If such content offends you, please do not read. This is an erotic FICTION story not meant as any sort of gender, political or societal protest. This is purely for entertainment and never meant to happen in reality. If you have issues with such kinks, please do not read.
"Tell me," Cindy says, deathly serious. Her eyes bore into mine as she stares at me, waiting for my response. Looking at her you would think I just told her I was about to murder every baby in the city or something. She's not just concerned but downright scared for me.
"I'm serious Candy, DO NOT go to that tree," Cindy says, still as serious as a heart attack. To this I roll my eyes, wanting to tell her so badly that she's not my mother. That if she keeps this up, she won't even be my friend.
Cindy and I have been best friends since the third grade. We become friends after the teacher kept calling us by the other's name. Which isn't hard to see why, physically we are both very beautiful black haired, full figure women.
"Ok Cindy, I won't go to The Tree," I tell her, showing that I think she's being stupid with my voice. She's being beyond stupid. I mean, it's Halloween after all. The one day a year you should check out creepy shit. Where you want to see something supernatural. The one night that it's your right.
Cindy and I are currently at the coffee shop as we wanted to hang out. We were talking like normal before I bought up The Tree. We do things together all the time, so I didn't think there was anything wrong with suggesting it. In fact, I thought it would be fun for us to go and visit it as a Halloween adventure. But no. She's dead set against it. I am damn near tempted to remind Cindy that we are 24 years old, not 42.
"You better not," Cindy warns, acting like she's going to slug me if I do it. Her eyes linger over me as if trying to see if I'm lying. But I keep an innocent and playful look.
"Well, I need to go, but Candy, DO NOT go to that tree. Don't go poking around that area. Nothing good will come from it," Cindy says, getting very loud. So loud in fact that the nearby people turn to look. This makes my face go a little red as I get embarrassed easy, and Cindy's making it seem like we a couple breaking up or something.
"Yes MOM," I reply, wanting her to know that she's acting worse than a mother. The urge to remind her that she is my best friend and should be joining me instead of trying to convince me to stop is extremely strong. But I know her, just as she knows me. She won't change her mind.
Cindy and I then hug, and she walks out of the coffee shop. I wave at her as she walks to her car, and again when she drives off. Even while driving away, she wags her finger as if warning me yet again not to go to The Tree. But the moment she is out of sight, I pull out my cell and Google "The Red Sister Tree."
Excitedly, I look at the articles I've read over and over again this morning. I look over the pictures that people have taken over the years, and then the videos. The more I see, the more I want to go there to see if for myself. To see if any of it is true.
The Red Sister Tree is a tree that's in Old Hermit's Forest, which is a patch of forest on the outskirts of my small town. No one knows exactly where the tree is, but it's believed that it's smack in the middle of the forest like it was a bullseye on a target. Sure, people have posted maps to get to it, but so much of what people post is shit. Some have even said that The Tree changes location in the forest, day to day.
The stories say that The Tree is haunted. Why it's haunted, I'm not sure. Some say because they used to hang people from it back in the day, innocent people. Others say there was a massacre of Native Americans there, and they cursed the ground. I even read a posting where a guy said he knows there are bodies of a supernatural serial killer buried under the tree. My favorite theory is that there's an old pagan god that lives in the tree. An old pagan sex god and he affects everything nearby.
Legend goes that when you are close to The Tree, things get spooky. And the closer you get, the spookier it gets. That more and more weird shit starts to happen.
People have reported all sort of crazy stuff in that forest, which lets them know they are near The Tree. When that happens, they tell you to get the hell out of there. To just turn back the way you came from and run. Why? Because everyone that's ever seen The Tree, well, they've disappeared. Never heard from again. That's why there is no real photos of The Tree, or a real map. If you see it, you disappear.
I know it's silly and if I'm being honest, a bit pathetic, but knowing something like that is in my town makes life seem exciting. It's an honest to goodness haunted location. Something to knock you out of the boring routine that is life. Where all you do is work, eat and sleep.
I was really hoping that Cindy would be as excited as me when I brought up the tree. That she would want to go with me to try and find it. Or to at least to go into those woods and see if we can't find some crazy shit. I mean, to see something that is actually supernatural? You know what that would do? It would make sure people would know there's more to this world. More to life.
I'm not sure when it happened, but life got...boring. Everyday seems the same. People seem the same. There's nothing new, unless it is something bad. I want more. I want to live. I want this Halloween to make me feel like when I was a kid, when there were monsters in my bed and closet, not to mention flying creatures in the sky at night. To feel that there is some magic in the world.
You know what? If Cindy doesn't want to feel alive, that's her problem. I'm going. I'm gonna find The Tree, or at least search until I see something crazy in those woods. Halloween only comes once a year, and I refuse to waste it. Not when the best you can hope for is going to some bar for a crappy costume contest or maybe to a lame party where everyone brings their kids. I mean, there's not even a decent haunted house attraction nearby.
With passion and determination flooding through me, I leave the coffee shop and get in my car. I don't bother driving home first to change into clothes better suited for this, but go directly to the Old Lot. The Old Lot is what we call the "parking lot" right outside the forest. It's just a small dirt patch of land which is the best place to park before heading into that forest.
It would be wise to stop and get things I need to guide my way in the forest, but it'll be ok. After all, it's Halloween. On Halloween all I need is my cell phone and my courage. Anyway, I'm not planning on staying long in that forest. I'm not so stupid that I'll hang around once it gets dark and the animals get hungry.
Twenty minutes later, I turn off the main road and onto the dirt road that leads to the Old Lot. This dirt road, which is more like a driveway, is in the midst of a large grassy plain where you can barely see the twin dirt lines that have been made by cars driving over it. At the end of it is the Old Lot.