About I Ate the Fried Spider

by Vic Winter
9 pages / 3690 words
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Danny's best friends, Chris and Greg, have a huge Halloween rivalry going. This year they're hosting the Halloween dinner party from Hell, and Danny's not sure he wants to be invited, let alone go and partake. The dinner party is every bit as gross as he imagined, but the guy sitting next to him is pretty easy on the eyes. Could this disgusting dinner party actually have a happy ending for Danny?
 

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Chris and Greg are two of my best friends. I've known them since high school, when we were pimply, unkempt youth. In fact, high school is where their current Halloween rivalry began and, like all rivalries, it was friendly enough to begin with. The year we were sophomores they tied for second place in the school's Halloween costume contest. Both determined they'd take first prize the following year. Chris came through our junior year, but Greg bested him our senior year and it's been on ever since.

It started off innocuously enough. Every year they'd try to outdo each other in the costume department. Then, when they moved into their own homes about a block away from each other, the outlandish house decorating began. From there it went to candies handed out. In fact, people come from all over town just to hit their houses, now -- the parents for the amusement and horror factor, the kids for the best candy hauls ever. You're practically set for the night on what they hand out.

Three hundred and sixty-four days of the year, Chris and Greg are the very best of friends, that three hundred and sixty-fifth, all bets are off. This year, they've taken the gloves off and admitted up front that they're in a hard core battle. They are going mano a mano -- head to head in a no hold's barred contest.

They are co-hosting a Halloween Dinner.

Terror filled me when I received my invitation. I almost R.S.V.P.'d unable to attend, but I knew they knew I had nowhere else to be and they are my best friends, after all. With great trepidation, I agreed to go.

My instincts were right.