BY: Melinda Barron

Doreen Cole loves Halloween, and everything that goes with it. She always overspends on candy for the neighborhood children, and always decorates so much that the neighbors remark on the gaudiness of the house. But Doreen doesn`t care, those little infractions are worth the fun at Halloween, and she`ll gladly pay the price of the spankings she receives for them.

This year, though, things are different. She and her husband, Walter, are now empty nesters, since the last of their three children has left for college. Doreen decides to host a murder mystery Halloween weekend in their huge house. She invites five other couples that will fit perfectly into their five extra bedrooms, and she sends out the invitations, and makes all the plans, without consulting her husband.

She figures she`ll tell him a week before hand, he`ll spank her for not telling him, and that will be the end of his anger. But when Walter finds out before Doreen is ready to let the cat out of the bag, she finds out that he?s not at all happy about the situation, and the spanking he gives her lets her know just how unhappy he is.

During the party, however, a prankster makes himself known, and the fake hunt for a murderer turns into a full-fledged hunt for a Halloween jokester.

Size: Five chapters

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