COSTUME
A skull painted small, on a cheek or a badge, and black-orange clothes.

NIGHT 26 OF 31
Halloween at full volume, still a party. The skulls are sugar and paper.
A skull painted small, on a cheek or a badge, and black-orange clothes.
A sugar-skull sweet you eat or keep. Marigold if the stall has them.
Paper skulls with flowers in the eyes. Dark orange bulbs. No gore, no props of harm.
Halloween at full volume, still a party. The skulls are sugar and paper.
Spiced buns iced like faces, then eaten, which is the tradition and the joke.
Orange chocolate, thick.
Loud, warm, a bass that feels like a bonfire.
Ice a bun and give it away. Your own face is not the canvas unless you ask.
The biggest ordinary Halloween night before the stranger themes return.
Paper skulls stay up. The iced ones do not.
OF THIS OCTOBER
Priya’s bun is beautiful and she hands it over before she can change her mind. Of this October.
EVENTS
A FRAME, IF YOU WANT ONE
You in black and orange at a mountain Halloween party, paper skulls with flowers, warm fire, festive not gory, no text.
STALL
One, decorated, wrapped. A costume and a pudding.