Title: Post Traumatic Stress
Author: Melissa Wiliams

Post-Traumatic Stress
           By Mistycat85

All manner of creatures invade the streets.
Aliens, cultists, zombies, sharks and ghosts
Are all out questing for tricks and for treats
Alone, a boy lurks among the fence posts.

“The evil has returned,” he sees in red,
“Enemies disguised this Halloween night.”
He strikes, candies roll in the flowerbed.
A young girl runs up, with face full of fright.

“What’s going on in your head big brother?
The evil is gone, so why still attack?
You promised us all that you were better,
The nightmare’s over, I’m taking you back.”

Dazed, the boy takes his little sister’s hand,
Fearful and thinking “They don’t understand.”