Trick Or Treat
A microfiction on Halloween and a hard life
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Nov 1, 2021
“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.