Dec 22, 2009
“Trick or Treat” is a story of mutual seduction, told in the third-person through the minds of two characters. The action is what one would expect in an ordinary love story. It begins with the recognition of desire, proceeds through the uncertainties of courtship, and ends with the relationship about to be consummated. What makes the story unusual is that the two people involved are a respectable housewife and a twelve-year-old boy.
The story is set in a small town in the American South. It is fall, a few weeks before Halloween. Mrs. Hollingsworth is...
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