Moonlight filters through the overhanging branches dappling the van with a patchwork of nightmarish shapes and shadows. Somewhere in the dense forest, an owl hoots.
Sandy flicks on the dome light. "According to the map, we're still on the right road. It doesn't show any turn-offs."
Marty, his eyes glued to the road, muttered, "If we don't find it soon, I'm going to say the hell-with-it."
"You can't do that. I spent too much time and money on my costume. I want to win the $500 first prize."
"And pigs want to whistle," Marty murmured under his breath.
"What?"
"Nothing," Marty said. He wasn't in favor of going to the party in the first place, and only agreed due to Sandy's constant whining and carrying on. He's getting damn tired of hearing, "You never want to do anything fun." Tonight's a good example. Attending the party sounded like a good idea when they received the invitation, but that was before Marty learned he had a major presentation the following morning. Shit! The party doesn't start until 11, which means I wouldn't get home until 4 am if I'm lucky. Another time Sandy's desires came before his.
"I'll give it one more mile then, I'm turning around," Marty said.
The mile came and went. Marty is turning around when Sandy screamed, "Stop!"
Marty jams on the brakes. "What?" he yelled, swiveling his head.
"Over there, through those trees. I see a faint glow."
"Fuck!"
"Don't be that way. It's going to be fun."
"Yeah, right." Marty heads the van in the direction of the lights, and ten minutes later, they see the Jack-O-Lanterns. There must be a thousand, spaced evenly along a crumbling, rock wall surrounding an old, decrepit cemetery. A primeval church, adjoining the graveyard, has suffered a similar fate. Gargoyle carved jack-o-lanterns glow eerily from openings once reserved for stained-glass windows.
Marty drives past the church and turns into a weed chocked parking lot jammed with cars.
Sandy stares wide-eyed. "Holy shit! There must be as many cars as pumpkins."
"Maybe a few less, but not many," Marty said as he squeezes into a space between a massive 4-wheel pick-up and a Volkswagen bug. There's barely enough room to open the doors. Sandy, wearing a black bodysuit, jumps out and opens the tailgate. When she leans in for the rest of her costume, Marty sees the bodysuit has an opening between her thighs. He moves closer, slides his fingers through Sandy's red curly hair into her wetness.
"Stop that!" Sandy said and bats his hand away.
"I didn't know bodysuits had cut-outs like that?"
"Most don't, but I wanted to be ready. Do you like it?"
Marty, wearing white, exterminator overalls, rubs his hard cock against Sandy's leg. "What do you think?"
"I think we're going to have a lot of fun. Do you have the donation?"
"Right here." Marty pats his pants pocket.
Sandy sits on the back bumper and inspects the rest of her costume. There are two plastic panels. One, for her front, the other for her back. The back panel features the body of a female black widow spider.
The front panel has a bright red hourglass and cut-outs for her 36C breasts. Sandy slides the panels over her head and adjusts the straps. The front panel covers the area from her chin to the top of her pussy.
Sandy opens what looks like a small hat box and takes out the rest of her costume. A black skull cap with bulging eyes and two curved fangs. She pulls the cap over her head and adjusts the fangs, so they lay next to her mouth. Long, black lashes and blood-red lipstick complete the look.
Sandy ignores the strange sensation coursing through her body, attributing it to pre-party jitters.
Sandy props herself in the van's cargo area, lean's back, and spreads her legs, revealing red pubic hair shaved in the shape of an hourglass. "Well, what do you think? Scary enough to win first prize?"
"I don't know about the judges, but your pussy scares the shit out of me. I'd be afraid once I got in, I'd never get out."
Sandy hops from the van and adjusts her mask. Marty doesn't notice she's moving toward him as he leans into the SUV and pulls out a metal cylinder imprinted with a skull and crossbones and the words: Kills Black Widow Spiders. A short hose and strap are attached. Marty slips the strap over his shoulder.
Sandy stops. Her eyes grow wide when she reads the canister. She steps back, turns, and quickly heads for the church. "Let's see if the party is what we're expecting?"
"What you're expecting," Marty mutters as he grabs his hat, face mask, and protective glasses before he pulls down the hatch. Sandy's half-way to the church, so she doesn't hear.
A man dressed like an undertaker, black suit and tie, black vest with a starched white shirt, stands next to the church's massive, wooden doors. "Welcome, swingers. Great costumes. Do you have your invitation?"
Marty hands the man their invitation. Sandi thanks him for the compliment.
"Go right in," the undertaker said as he opens the doors. "Enjoy the party and don't forget to leave your donation in the casket."
Sandy and Marty walk into muted darkness. The only light comes from flickering candles inside two rows of macabre faced Jack-O-Lanterns leading from the church doors to a casket sitting on a stand at the front of the church. Giant cobwebs, reflecting the orange-red light, hang from the ceiling.
A clone of the man standing by the doors stands next to the casket. Marty drops their $150 donation onto the white silk lining and waits while the clone attaches red, plastic bands around Sandi and his wrists.
"The party's through there," the clone said without expression and points to a door on the sidewall.
The door opens onto the graveyard. Swingers, clothed and unclothed in costumes of every imaginable description, are at play. Game booths, like those found in carnivals, have been set up at random intervals around the graveyard.
"Wow!" Sandy mutters. "I wasn't expecting this."
Marty wasn't either. "Fuck!" He sees tomorrow's presentation going up in smoke.
"That's what we're here for," Sandy said as she looks around for a likely candidate. She spots an alien with long spidery fingers and an abnormally large cock standing a short distance away. He's talking to a young woman dressed as Little Bo Beep. Five small blow-up sheep mingle around her feet.
Sandy walks past the alien, feinting non-interest, and stops when she reaches the ring toss booth. Three costumed men, with different size cocks (all hard), lie in three wooden coffins.
"Try your luck?"
Sandy looks up and sees a giant cock, complete with balls, standing on the other side of a four-foot-high divider.