Darling Girl's Halloween Carol — Stephen Donald Huff

Black eyeliner, thick and heavy. Black lashes, long and flashy. Black lips, thin and jaded. Black hair, bobbed and razor-cut. Through it all, peers the white-cake face of Darling Girl Bones, blanched and blooded. And why not?She's a castaway fourteen-year-old orphan, all alone in the world, sigh! Nobody notices! Moan! Nobody cares! Groan! Heavy pout, mugging for pity!Hey! Step-off her uterus! She knows where she's going, because she knows where she's been! Nobody can tell her anything she hasn't already heard!Except... this guy... this older guy... Sure, he wears cheap leisure suits and something resembling clown-shoes, but he makes such sweet promises! He tells her only what she wants to hear and nothing that bugs her... until one night... the night of Halloween and her fifteenth birthday......something terrible happens! Something wonderful and awful and terrifying and beautiful and TERRIBLE!This is Darling Girl's Halloween Carol. Suck it up, freaks, and get a shovel. 'Cause you're going to dig it!