This is a
Halloween Story Contest 2023
story, so please vote! This is in the erotic horror category. All characters engaged in sexual activity are adults.
The thunder rolled slowly over the land, the rumble's low frequencies shaking buildings as the storms slowly moved in. At Zephyr Farms, the patrons attending the annual fall festival reached for their phones and checked the weather. The line of storms was bad, with a long north-south running line of deep red and orange coloration. The scramble was on to escape the farms before the storms pummeled the land.
Those up in the pumpkin patch were at the most risk. The patch was set high up on the hill whereas the farm's main buildings were down in the valley. It was not a long walk but a walk nonetheless, and most people had taken the farm tractor ride to get to the patch. The somewhat worried patrons scrambled, some managing to get on the last ride back down, some walking fast down the hill weaving through fields and the nursery areas of the farms to get to their cars.
The clouds rolled in low and dark, roiling gray and fat with moisture. Thunder boomed as lightning exploded, jumping from cloud to cloud and more dangerously cloud to ground. But the storm's slow speeds had allowed for an escape for most of the patrons at Zephyr Farms, so by the time that the storms were fully overhead at the Farms, the torrential rains came down so hard that some localized flooding was expected but none of the patrons were caught in it.
A bolt of lightning struck the ground just near the pumpkin patch. The clap of thunder from that strike rattled every window at the farm. It made quite a few people jump. But no one at the farm knew or could have guessed that the random strike of lightning had awakened a malevolent presence that had lurked on the grounds near the farm for eons.
That spirit stirred, the jolt of electricity passing through the soil jarring it from its long slumber. The spirit had no underlying gender nor did it have a memory of itself. It simply returned to wakefulness. But now that it was awakened, it realized its hunger. A deep, consuming hunger.
The following day, an exact week before Halloween, the passage of the prior night's storm had left the skies utterly cloudless and the air crisp and cool. Even though it was a weekday, the pumpkin patch was a busy place but now it was filled with the empty nesters who wanted a pumpkin but avoided the crowds, or the parents of the younger children who also had reason to avoid the crowds.
The little girl was dressed brightly, wearing leggings under her cute green flannel dress. She had a bow in her blonde hair and her mother, a severe-looking woman with glasses, followed her carefully. She ran to and fro through the patch, giggling with the pleasure unique to four year olds who were set free to run in a big pumpkin patch. She ran from big orange pumpkin to big orange pumpkin, seeking the perfect one. She hugged one but her attention was instantly distracted by the next. She moved further and further along the rows, her mother following closely and stolidly.
Of course the little girl did not see the vine. She was running, and her foot caught that vine and she thudded heavily into the ground, smacking her face into the still-wet soil. Shocked and stunned from the fall, the little girl erupting in shrill cries, and stayed crying even after her mother came and scooped her up. The mother fussed terribly not over the girl's injuries, but over how she had gotten her clothes all muddy.
"Cut," the girl said to mommy. "Cut cut!" she repeated insistently. She showed her mother the cut that laced into the girl's palm. It was long but shallow, with one droplet of blood smeared towards the heel of her hand. The mother's fussing cycled back up, making the little girl fuss even more, and the two left the patch.
Innocent blood,
the presence thought. If it had been able to achieve a human form, it would have smiled coldly and shivered.
Two days later, the air was much cooler even though the skies remained cloudless. The sun shone brightly overhead, and this time a woman hugely pregnant walked slowly through the patch. She had a little red cart behind, and her movements were slow because of her enormous size and because she had no reason to hurry. Her eyes darted from pumpkin to pumpkin.
She was aware of other eyes on her. Her attire, jeans tight on her lower legs and sensible boots, and a creamy sweater under a vest with a scarf at her neck did its best to hide her breasts thick with milk to feed her impending baby. She was a pretty woman, and in her state filled with hormones, her hair seemed to shine under the sun's rays. But even though she was aware that eyes were on her, she paid them no mind. She hummed a song that kept flitting through her mind as she searched for the perfect pumpkin.
She finally found it, in the back row, near a dark near-circle spot of soil. She reached over, emitting a painful squawk, as her back and breasts both protested the movement. She clutched the pumpkin in her hands and deposited it into the wagon. She nearly swooned for a moment, and decided to sit down in the patch. She swept a bit of plant debris out of the way, and sat down, turning her face to the sky to let the sun's rays hit her face. It felt pleasant and she was immediately in a good, warm mood. The baby was awake, and kicked her ribs painfully, which made her wince. But she did not voice her discomfort, reveling in the unique sensation of a growing life inside her body.
So she did not see a series of very thin tendrils moving slowly on the ground from around her. The vines of the pumpkin plants sprouted these tendrils, and they moved slowly but steadily. On the ground, her legs were parted because her belly did not permit her legs to close. With her eyes closed, she did not see a young man shoot her a hungry look that would have offended her terribly if she had seen it. The tendrils wove their way under her legs and then rose up. Two tendrils lightly climbed the crotch of her jeans. Their touch was so light that she would not have noticed them anyway.
But the presence, sensing her and knowing what she could glean from her, sent out its brand of magnetic waves. The pregnant woman was immediately caught in its glam, her mind freed of all concerns as she was content to remain seated and take in the sun.
This woman, who due to her condition had not had sex in some months, suddenly pulled her head down and looked around wildly. She could not see her crotch and had no idea that the sudden screaming need that she felt in her body was due to those tendrils that pulsed repeatedly. The two tendrils were not directly over the pregnant woman's sex, but lying alongside her organ on either side, sending its waves between one another passing over her body. And all the woman felt was something akin to a vibrator being applied to her body.