(Written for Halloween Vault 2023)Four teens walk into a town where the people are a little too obsessed with Halloween. Will they come back out alive?(Cover picture taken from Pinterest, but I couldn't find the original artist)…
For Sam Budrioli, Yule isn't looking very promising this year. Not with his entire family fighting passive aggressively. Not with their little stall of charms and perfumes- which the Budriolis set up every year for the Yule festival- seeming a bit too worse for wear. Not with the posh little coffeeshop opening right next door, which means competition. And especially not when Oliver Adler- the infuriating boy from school- shows up as the barista. Throw in a love potion into the mix, and- well, Sam really isn't having the time of his life. Or is he?…