Behind the Mask

Welcome guys and gals to another quick CTstories's story! I hope you enjoy this micropasta/theory everyone!

The Horrible Truth
When I used to trick or treat, I always loved looking at the creative costumes that everyone used to wear. It was the one day in the whole year where it was not just accepted to wear your creepiest costume, but it was expected. Especially if you were a boy of my age back in those days, it was almost an unwriten law that you were going as a scary monster.

As the years have gone by, and my friends and I stopped trick or treating outside for the yearly search for sweets and pranks, I started to look at the other side of dressing up as Freddy, Ghostface, and Michael Myers. I started to look at my younger siblings and their friends that would dress up as their own nightmares. They would then act like that manifestation of fear that they felt every other day, thus becoming their own nightmare.

Was it a conscious decision, or was it something that was occuring without them even knowing? It is something that I ponder to this day. Why would someone want to wear a costume of something that actually scares them?

You know what I think? I think that there must be a place in everyone that makes them envy the very thing that they fear. One wants to be the predator rather than the prey. One would much rather be the mindless serial killer who is indestructable than a nameless victim.

It's the name recognition that gets us all. There must be a part of my brain that much rather be Michael Myers than myself. To be infamous is much better than to be forgotten. And that scares me to death. And every Halloween, this realization that we dress as our greatest fears in the futile effort to become that fear is the only thing I think about.

Author's Note
Thanks so much for reading this off-the-cuff, theory/micropasta. I hope that you enjoyed it, or just thought that it was interesting. Please comment in the comment section and be sure to check my page for new pastas when they come out.

Here are my other CTstories:

1) The Ombra

2) The Last Piece

3) Lucid Mystery

4) Bedtime Stalker

5) You Are in a Room

6) Frozen in Time