This was gonna be a great Halloween

[Doc]

Traditionally, where I live, Halloween is called Hell Night. For many many years, the Klan has taken to acting like spooks and scaring folk. Don't happen much in the larger towns and cities, but in the backwoods, and the small towns where the terror still has hold and people don't talk about much or say much, they still do their thing. Good old boys in pickup trucks going around vandalising, raping, robbing, and even killing. Next morning you find some dead folk hanging from trees. People who were "uppity" and may have done something to offend their white supremacist views.

And for the past few years, younger kids have taken to going around to the farms and killing livestock, drawing pentagrams in blood, and other nasty crap like that, trying to create a satanic cult witch scare sort of craze.

But last night was quiet. It really frightened me. I got so tense I was out doing patrols with a gun that had the safety off just waiting for something. That's not like me at all. I am always so careful with my firearms, but last night I was a worried panicked wreck.