Enter Lewd-Interlude: A Little Satire Please Halloween Need Not Be Cancelled; Join the Masquerade!
… Quiet Games and Spooky Prizes to Keep the Halloween Spirit Alive (Therefore Food and Drink Will Not Be Provided)
You’re Invited to a Halloween Masquerade Ball!
Program of Horrors
1: Enter through our tunnel of terror where you’ll be surrounded with screens of people hugging, sharing food at indoor restaurants, and super-spreader rallies.
2: To promote good hygiene, the quiet game will be ongoing. Be as silent as the grave longest of all guests and win a gag ball for that pesky relative who defies Dr. Fauci.
3: Exchange and vote for scariest Trump tweet on your phone.
4: We’ll “trick” your friends with a fake vaccine as a party favor, and “treat” you to a beating in the street if your costume does not include a mask.
5: Contest for best mask will win an exclusive invitation to a Proud Boys anti-protest party.
6: Perhaps the most terrifying game to celebrate with: bobbing for Hydroxychloroquine. Take the risk; make your heart tremble.
7: Grand finale at midnight: an interactive production of Edgar Allen Poe’s The Mask of the Red Death, complete with live cultures.
Quote-of-the-day
“A disease known as the Red Death plagues the fictional country where this tale is set, and it causes its victims to die quickly and gruesomely. Even though this disease is spreading rampantly, the prince, Prospero, feels happy and hopeful. He decides to lock the gates of his palace in order to fend off the plague, ignoring the illness ravaging the land.—
—At midnight, a new guest appears, dressed more ghoulishly than his counterparts. His mask looks like the face of a corpse, his garments resemble a funeral shroud, and his face reveals spots of blood suggesting that he is a victim of the Red Death.”
https://sites.google.com/site/authorstudyedgarallanpoe/works/short-stories/masque-of-the-red-death