For obvious reasons I meant this to be a Halloween story, but its unexpected complexity and length (it came out to 11,334 words, published in one long chapter because I wanted this to be the sort of story that built up inexorably toward its climax like a dark symphony, but divided into 12 subchapters of varying lengths because I did not want to confront readers with a conceptual wall of text) meant that I could not complete it until around 2:45 pm on the morning of November 1st. I'm sure that

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