"Halloween Spirits" by Aaron McNees
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One fine Halloween evening in 1993 as i was getting ready for a night of reveling, raucousness,revenge and candy, i was taking a shower and shaving and cut myself rather deeply upon the neck. As the blood ran down my arm, i marveled at its quantity and a strange whim overtook me and i said, aloud " I offer this blood up to the Halloween Spirits"
It ran in a strait line down my arm and headed to the drain, where the water made a vortice. As it ran, i noticed i could not see it hitting the drain and indeed was disappearing before it got to the drain at about six inches from the swirling whirlpool below. eventually it creeped me out and i got out of the shower and had to use direct pressure to get it to stop while i got ready for Halloween, i was going as a "free agent" of the grim reaper. The cut was not deep but it stung and i was a little pale in the face and my makeup came out quite deathly. I had a good time and chalked it off to the strangeness of surface tension and imagination.
The next year, 1994, as i readied for Samhain again, i was very careful in the shower and neither invited spirits of any kind into my shower nor did i attempt to shave deeply, i was just shaving the sides of my face for a rough Goatee and never touched my neck at all with the razor blade. Never the less, I still bled profusely with the water again disappearing down the drain into the dark vortex of the subterranean tunnels that run below. Needless to say, i hurried from the shower and got ready quickly, feeling some dark force was watching and toying with me just a little bit.
All Hallows Eve, 1995- i got in the shower saying nothing, no lights but a small white candle and Did Not Shave. As you might have guessed , my neck bled anyway and looked particularly creepy in the dim candle light.
Since then, i have had no further episodes, altho i still do not shave in the shower on Halloween and make sure the door is open and the lights are on.
Whoooohhhaaaahhaaaahhh!
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