By Rishaan Chowdhury
It’s the day, the day when monsters, dressed as all kinds of things, take over the town. Only a few have ever lived to tell the tale and today is my first time. I was born at a giant cold place called “The Factory”. I saw daylight first when I was two weeks old. During my journey to the outside world as we now call it I saw many of my loved ones die. We got tossed and thumped around and those who were not as fortunate as me perished into crumbs. One day I woke up in my home, a plastic bag and I saw monsters. Giant monsters walking around in white uniforms, wheeling around boxes of my kind. It was that day that I learned my name, REESES. That day I went down through the pile to my friends, they were all so excited that we all had names, except, there were the same. My brother, REESES and my sister REESES all got so confused that when they called REESES The whole bag would go to them and that was dangerous. You see, I am a ¼ in thick and 1 in wide, that means that when 2lbs REESES jump on you, you could die. That’s what happened to my cousin REESES. Anyway, some days one of us would jump out of the bag and get some news about what was happening to us, one day they told us, our cousins SNICKERS had become our brothers and sisters after some sort of agreement with “H-E-R-S-H-E-Y”? One day I was chosen to go out to the world. I was so excited that 1 week before my adventure I was already packed up and ready to go. But then on October 30, 2021 our bag lurched forward. We clung on to each other and got piled up on bright cold shelves. I looked through the window and saw my brother SNICKER. He and I were made by the same machine so we were related. One day when we were hanging around on the moving rubber a monster picked him up and took him away. I was so young I don’t remember the rest. But now we were reunited! Later that day while the council, the largest REESES discussed how the next mission would go on a tragedy occured. A monster in red and blue picked up the entire bag of my brothers’ and started leaving, then he slipped and my brother’s bag went crashing to the floor. It crumbled and burst and all that was left was the oozing blood of my brother and his limbs, as we call it, C-A-R-A-M-E-L. I cried and cried (dry of course) and hugged my siblings for comfort. Then the entire bag started moving, that same monster was carrying us! I could hear the screams and feel the pain of the SNICKERS that had perished. I was terrified! We were attacked by some red light and a loud beeping sound. The monster gave a green paper to the person holding me and we got tossed over back to the original monster. I then fainted from fright.
I awoke in a bright orange bowl. A monster that looked like a zombie reached in and grabbed my brother. I released my sticky liquid (Hot chocolate) and tried to pull him down but the zombie was to strong. A skeleton then came and grabbed my sister and threw her to a green monster. My sister fell to the ground and got smashed. I started sobbing so hard that my peanut started hurting. Then I looked back for my brother but he was gone, in his place a monster in a red suit with a pointy weapon, the rumors were right, Little Red Riding Hood. She reached in and grabbed me, only to drop me and pick up my cousin. Suddenly a person named CANDY CORN crawled into my bowl and was dripping melted chocolate, I could smell the sugary blood. As he lay on the bottom of our bowl, dying he said, “BEWARE THE PIT OF DOOM, THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM!”. Before I could ask more he died right in front of me. I was so shocked that I didn’t realise that I was being picked up by a monster. I was dropped into an orange bag with other candies. There was Old Man Hershey Bar and Aunt Butterfingers. I cried and said, “I don’t want to die!”. I then passed out from sadness. When I awoke I was naked! I was thinly wrapped in my brown tissue underwear and my delicate chocolate body was exposed. Aunt Butterfingers was nowhere to be seen. I looked to the bottom of the bag and dread filled inside me, there she was, crushed to powder. I screamed and then suddenly got picked up. I was dropped into a wet hot dark room and started feeling my limbs getting smashed! I was in pain and surrounded by parts of my body! Suddenly I felt a lurch that threw me out of my misery for a moment into a tube. I screamed “NOOOOOO” and everything went black! Candy heaven...