The Helpless Hitcher by Kris P. Kreme
Nearly home to his rural farmhouse one night, Joel is surprised to see the young wife from next door dressed strangely with her thumb out hitching a ride. Stopping to see if she’s okay, Sadie does not remember who she is, that she’s married, or where she lives so Joel gives her a ride to his house, trying to help her.
But will his intentions to help be what curses him to a somewhat unusually costumed fate when they find a receipt in Sadie’s pockets from Donnie the Demon’s Costume Castle?
On his way home, riding along the bumpy dirt road that leads across expansive rural acreage, Joel is happily talking to his wife, wishing she were at home, but understanding she has to work a double shift at the diner tonight. And then he spots a woman hitchhiking along the side of his own dirt road. Even stranger, as he gets closer, Joel sees it is their new neighbor’s wife, Sadie… and something looks very off about her.
HallowKreme goes rural, with something of a familiar demonic twist.
His wife Ashley on the phone, Joel is very confused about why Sadie would be standing there on the side of essentially his length of dirt driveway, thumb out like she is hitching a ride, dressed in tiny jean shorts and a top that doesn’t seem at all like the recently relocated city girl she is.
Assuring his wife he’ll figure out what the problem is and see her later when her shift ends, Joel is stopping and trying to see what’s wrong with Sadie. Only in recent months did the only property near their acreage sell to city folk, Ryker and his young wife Sadie. And while Ryker has been busily working on the old house they bought himself late into the nights, Sadie has almost never wandered over this time of night, and certainly not looking as confused as she looks.
Stopping and speaking with her only further convinces Joel that something is wrong, Sadie having no idea who she is, who he is, that she is married or lives anywhere nearby. In fact, the only thing she seems to know is that she needs a ride, and hopes whoever gives her one is a nice man because you never know who might pick a girl up this late and lonely a night.
Taking her back to his farmhouse, Joel is concerned, unable to get Ryker on the phone, and trying to figure any of this out. And when he asks Sadie what she does remember, she seems to recall being at a store. Thinking she might have her ID on her and that can help her remember who she is, they instead find a receipt in her pocket… a receipt from Donnie the Demon’s Costume Castle.
Figuring he should piece together what happened, why she was in the city at this themed costume store, and maybe figure out what happened after she left, Joel calls the number on the receipt, and Grimmel answers with a sales pitch about the current cursed costume sale they have going.
As he explains and Joel only humors him figuring it’s a Halloween thing, Donnie insisted on having a sale to finally get rid of every last one of the very oldest most cursed costumes they have, the ones so extreme in their curses but unfortunately not big sellers.
Strange as it sounds, silly as it seems, Grimmel remembers Sadie coming in for a costume to wear for visiting city friends. And apparently she chose one called The Helpless Hitcher. Claiming she liked how it looked but didn’t understand the warnings of it being cursed, she bought it and left.
Asking to speak to someone else, a manager or someone, Joel is put on hold while Grimmel goes looking for Melgrim. And while on hold, Donnie the Demon chats with him while munching on mini-pizzas of course.
But nothing Donnie says, as friendly as he seems, helps explain Sadie, sitting there innocently and clueless wearing apparently only the helpless hitcher costume she bought, a costume that definitely fits her quite tightly and well in places Joel is uncomfortably aware of.
Donnie tries to explain that The Helpless Hitcher is a mindless victim of a costume, but without anyone around to victimize and abuse her sweet trusting nature, she will only lose more and more of herself to the cursed costume. Apparently the whole point is for someone to pick her up, that someone compelled soon with the unending need to torture her, abuse her, and do things twisted with the Helpless Hitcher’s innocent body.
When Melgrim finally picks up, Joel is annoyed and not getting the answers he wants. Asking how he can help her, Melgrim only points out that what Sadie wears is a dependent costume… dependent on someone picking her up, then that someone taking advantage of her. But if Joel does that, he not only helps her but curses himself to forever be a twisted dominating victimizer who enjoys what he does.
Ending the call, angry and confused, will Joel suddenly feel the compelling call Sadie’s outfit is cursed to give him? Will he be able to help her or will Joel soon be giving into the need to abuse, torture, and do truly twisted things with sweet Sadie from next door? And if so… what will Ashley think when she arrives home after working a double shift at the diner?
Find out as Donnie the Demon makes his expected HallowKreme appearance in a most unexpected way, all thanks to The Helpless Hitcher.
The next treat is… more than Evil…
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