October 19th

The graveyard shift started at 10pm and ended at seven in the morning. When Daniel arrived, he did not know what to expect. It had been an eventful month so far. Some guy was found hanging in his field like a scarecrow; another two men were pecked to death by birds. They found this girl last night, her body parts all over the place like she'd swallowed a bomb. He'd seen a fatal dog attack, a family chewed apart by what looked like raccoons, and even some guy's skin with no body. It was a gruesome October, but then again things always became more morbid as Halloween approached. He clocked in and his predecessor from the previous shift left. Daniel was all alone with the bodies. One of the drawers rattled. The only thing inside of it was a corpse. Another drawer shook, its occupant banging around. The newest body on the table moved its fingers.

"No… freaking… way," he said. The corpse stood up and walked towards him. The bodies in the drawers managed to open their enclosure, and they climbed out. More bodies rose and came after him. Daniel turned around and took off towards the front door. They weren't slow, lumbering, undead zombies. These bodies sprinted towards him, cutting him off before he could get out of the building. He looked into the eyes of one of the corpses, and it gave him a gruesome smile. The dead body's eyes turned yellow. Daniel screamed when they closed in, crying out in pain as they bit his skin and tore his flesh.

At eleven-thirty, an ambulance driver pulled up to deliver a new body. When he walked in, he saw Daniel on the ground, twitching and staring up at the ceiling. All the bodies were where they should have been, and the place was clean with no sign of anything that would have attacked. On the table in the center of the morgue rested a jack-o'-lantern, a lumbering zombie carved into the skin and a bright orange flame on the inside flickering. Daniel stood to his feet behind the ambulance driver. His eyes turned yellow, he stepped forward, and bit into the man's neck, tearing out his throat.

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