Trick Or Treat

A microfiction on Halloween and a hard life

Srinath
Writers’ Blokke
Nov 1, 2021

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A busy scene on Amsterdam’s Canal City
Image by PublicDomainPictures from Pixabay

“Trick or Treat,” Jill walked around the streets saying.

If her customers chose “treat,” she’d offer their preference. If it was “trick,” she knew how to surprise them.

It was a hard line of business filled with abuse, disease, and poverty.

But she wouldn’t complain, not until her daughter graduated.

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Srinath
Writers’ Blokke

Tired of a normal life. Afraid of a different one. I’ve taken refuge in Poetry and dreams. Aspiring Aspirer.