Halloween/Stranger

A young couple prepare for a normal apartment-Halloween, with candies for door-knockers, but they're to undergo a 'dark-examination' (for a bound Homeland).

A 'thrilling' Halloween Eve tale (fictional) of 'stranger' proportion(s). 

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Amlan and Ezzy hoped for a normal Halloween experience in their new apartment and kept some candies for folks who might scale up/down their building for convenience in candy-procurement, offering their very-normal senses of 'incomplete-distances' to post-9/11 era Homeland traffic/lifestyle securities (for confidence!) as America healed from terrorism-scars with social-media commentary about 'enduring' life-activity/rituals (sure).

AMLAN: I wonder who'll knock on our door now, as it's past 9pm, Ezzy.

EZZY: Well, I guess these late-hours trick-or-treaters won't be kids (teens?).

AMLAN: We'll stop answering the door at 10:30pm (sharp)...agreed?

EZZY: Good (I'll make a nice social media post about our apt.-photos tonight!).

AMLAN: Thanx (I'll make corn-chowder), love.

The two had met while studying together (Dartmouth) and were now residents of New England (Boston-town) and hoped this Halloween-Eve would be basically an 'extension' of their newfound/shared/young life of hopefully 'normal' anticipations for American activity, but at 10pm (sharp), a masked man of 'stranger' definition knocked on their apt.-door, with a very eerie omen and demand to enter with a sales-pitch for shiny new mouses (for desktop computers!).

STRANGER: I've 30 mouses in my case, young-folks (tonight); you'll love one.

AMLAN: Alright, but you can stay (offer your 'pitch') for just 30-mins (ok).

STRANGER: That's all I need, and some of your Mars candy (good ones?).

EZZY: Cool...you look like a 'stranger' fellow (even for Halloween-Eve).

STRANGER: Hey, you'll appreciate this Oct.-31 (for social-media commentary).

Only, the stranger never left. He killed Amlan/Ezzy and left a note on the back of a movie-poster/flyer of a lycanthropy-film he left at the crime-scene, reading, "Never cry werewolf...or assume there's innocence on the other side of the dark-side of the home-door, where salesmanship may veil a mutated form of Homeland invasion consciousness...or breaks (for anyone)."

DETECTIVE: Two bowls of yummy-yummy Tex-Mex (corn-chowder) left-behind.

ASSISTANT: Seems these two newylweds had became new Halloween stat.

DETECTIVE: Any suspects, friend?
ASSISTANT: Nothing interesting, sir; it may've been just about anyone (really!).

DETECTIVE: That's America for you...hospitality-readings belying 'stranger' IQ.

ASSISTANT: Geez, maybe it was you, sir (hahaha)?

"Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about" (Ralph Waldo Emerson). 

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)