Shortage (Best Laid Plans Book 2) - Plot & Excerpts
About the time he started to feel he was too old for it the custom changed and the town organized a Trunk or Treat activity along Main Street where all the parents would bring their car around and park them in a line so the kids could get their candy in safety. Matt had always thought that took the fun out of things and was a bit overcautious for a quiet town where everyone knew each other, but he supposed people had gotten more suspicious while he was growing up. There'd be no Trunk or Treat this year. If anyone had candy they wouldn't be giving it out to a bunch of other people's kids while their own went hungry, but most people didn't since Ferris and his goons had altered their inspections. Two weeks was too lenient, it seemed, and now they were confiscating any food they found. They justified it with their ration line, but it was looking less and less like organizing relief and more and more like outright theft. At least they still only inspected houses when the owners gave them permission, holding the daily rations as the carrot, but there was no telling how long that would last.
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