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A Night To Remember Grace has a wonderful Halloween evening with her husband Dan, Sights to see and a luxurious dinner at a fancy restaurant (Character Death, Blood, Violence.)

Got bored so I decided to get started early lmao. Halloween 2026 baby! Come, come my darlings! Taste the sweet autumn air The revelries aplenty The fruits of thy labors tended yearly The Rules Include all appropriate tags at the top Halloween, Festival and or Horror Original Fiction Preferred but relevant disclaimers with the tags 50k or less Witness the breathtaking slasher perform their mating dance or just take a seat before the bonfire and watch the annual scarecrow migration as they prepare to hibernate before winter. Or even ponder then the nameless sightless thing that stares unblinking. Welcome one and all!

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46221! Ah! The Sweet embrace of odd! And now the tides turn once more to and fro.

46197! Behold the simple perfection of seven!

46149! Behold the glory of odd!

46051! Behold the number of 1! One half of the binary.

46041 Behold! The value of one.

46015! Behold what was once can be again.

For completeness to answer why. Imagine chasing a climax that never comes. A hunger that is never filled and a brief respite of insensation that never lasts long. In the hellspore you get the dubious honor of being aware of predation and of being prey. You get to be aware of being slain, of being devoured and being witness to your own murder. You get to feel everything. Before you respawn.

To Answer. Hellhounds are sapient and on par with souls. Rex is fully aware and capable, he just looks like Malinois. Its part of what makes Hellhounds so dangerous. They can plan and coordinate, he’s just lacking opposable thumbs and vocal chords that can handle speech. If Rex ever decides to take a human visage... Rex IS smarter than Private Daniel. Whose been down there long enough to know the things down their like to play with their food. With everything that implies. There’s a reason why he’s eager to do even suicidal tactics. @JayDee Yes he does in fact have a fiery knot. fyi. A lot of accidents aren’t as nobody suspects the dog in plain sight. The Hellspore is a hell that in transcends and interjects with liminal and interspatial places.

From JayDee on January 18, 2026 I doubt I’ll have time to go back through every holiday I missed, but this recent one got a mention so I figured what the heck, lets see what y’all did! Starting with the first story: Interregnum by InvidiaRed A Fucking Creepy Statue? Jesus, those things get everywhere! I’d be scared if someone tried to turn me into a statue. In fact, I’d be petrified. First thought seeing that was if it was a crossover with InBrightestDay’s multipart epic, but I guess they’re unrelated. Definitely made me look twice tho’ Its a direct parallel. The Falling Angel is met with a Rising Demon. Their hellion story ends where the angel’s begins. Ok, so, a couple of the transitions threw me slightly – suddenly back in the park, then back in the mall, and earlier the way there was suddenly a wall behind in the service corridor – but otherwise I had a pretty solid idea what happened throughout, and why, and I thought there were some pretty goddamn badass moments. Thank you Going toe to toe with Vulravn like that, taking his floor from him – oh, he’s gonna respawn? Well, he can die again. Let him go rule the remains of the shoe store Jenna was correct about not trusting him. Death is a luxury only mortals get. And Jenna slew one of Hell’s Reapers. Losing the certainty of death isn’t something she knows she’s lost… Yet. Didn’t quite get the deal with Mars – was it something similar to the original Doom plot where Hell started pouring through up there, and then you basically find yourself on the shores of Hell? Those were the days… The Afterlife follows mortals wherever they tread so to does psychopomps. Rex best boy! It was a Halloween horror and I was starting to worry something bad might happen to him in a “Dogs aren’t the only ones that can lick” type way, but it was cool! Rex the instrument of vengeance too! I liked how that was foreshadowed too, with how the previous officer had received Jenna’s vengeance for sending the men to their deaths. Yes. Its her line in the sand. ...and her closest ally, Rex? a King... and she's a Queen. Nice. Anyways, I enjoyed this one! Like I say, good dog, badass fighting, nice imagery. Did Vulravn come out of the broken statue or was that thing just… broken? No. But they did manage to wash up down there. The Hellspore touches many places. And they more than earned their stay.

That setting will always be open to you. Though, I must admit its nature likely a few characters have shown up elsewhere despite my best. It seems that Maker’s story has interwoven itself through quite a bit. I will probably have to write it at one point if only so it can leave me alone. In many ways Jophiel’s story is just beginning. The hellspore does open to many places and her makers sins have a way of reaching her creations.

45997!

From InBrightestDay on January 09, 2026 Insidious by InvidiaRed I swear I spent so long trying to figure out whether this was linked to the stuff going on with Duncan and Company. Actually finishing up with Duncan and Co. They’ve been through alot and Logan is finally getting his spotlight. Being forced to think to be active and being held to account. However, the mentions of Venusian cloud cities and other off-world colonies implies this is a different setting, somewhere in the far future. It seems that this horseman here (the horse is Fallow, so maybe he's Famine) has some sort of amnesia. Is that something he placed on himself, or did he commit some sort of crime and this is the punishment? I am also curious about these other characters. Lucifer is generally referred to as the morning star, so the evening star is likely another person, and Mr. Blue is a complete mystery. Still I get the gist of it, as we may be seeing the end times beginning by the time the story stops, what with the Beast rising from the sea and all. The only spoiler I’ll give is thus. Which Beast is which? The Morningstar did fall. Yet rare indeed is the one that never did. I do find it interesting to think about who the woman Famine's thinking about was. It seems to be something left for a potential follow-up in years to come. Whether you do follow this up or not, it's still a cool little piece; thank you for sharing! You liked her height if I recall.