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Submitted to Contest #221
Halloween should be the night the spirits are closest to the living. That's what young Amanda was counting on tonight. She'd entered the graveyard near midnight and set up her candles around a grave. The body in the ground beneath her belonged to a man that she had known as Smithy. He'd been her teacher and mentor for the past few years and had become a father figure. Her knees pressed into the still loose dirt of his grave. They'd only buried the old man a week ago. Amanda tried to keep her hands from shaking as she lit five candles....
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