Blanking Out

Longtime friends Heath, Eva, and Simone are visiting the local Halloween Emporium, an incredibly large warehouse store cluttered full of all things Halloween. Everything from costumes to candy to full size decorations for the yard are found piled high and towering over the three college students as they walk in the doors. Perhaps the only odd thing is the distinct lack of other shoppers.

For Heath, he's always had a frustration in life, particularly with his two closest and longest friends, Eva and Simone. Over the years Heath had tried many times to have one of them, to be with either the perky blue eyed blonde Simone or the curvy girl next door Eva. Unfortunately the two girls were something of experts at avoiding his poor attempts at advances.

Hoping in the back of his mind for a chance at offering firsthand feedback on some potentially sexy Halloween costumes, Heath is again frustrated as both girls assure him that he's not there to creep on them.

It's all in good humor, Heath the accepted pervert he can sometimes be as much as Simone is the accepted free spirit or easy girl she can sometimes be. Simone is planning to surprise some guys from Omega Beta at a party they are having on campus and she figured this place might have something to do the trick.

But even in Heath's tag along role for this outing to the Halloween Emporium, he quickly becomes aware of something they all should find incredibly disturbing. Despite all the brightly colored and festive decorations, there is hardly a single sound to be heard in the entire store.

No one talking, no registers ringing up items, nothing at all seeming to move an inch besides the three of them. The girls don't think much of it, ignoring his warnings for the most part until they find the bargain section of items that appears to have been ransacked.

Marked 75% off and Factory Flawed, the Halloween Blanking Lights are in a large bin with a display above offering demonstration of how they work. Assumed to be Halloween Blinking Lights, the simple misspelling offered shoppers a huge savings on some brightly colored lighting. What freaks Simone out though isn't the massive markdowns, it's the mannequins standing in a crowd nearby.

Most of the mannequins look rather normal, just the kind of full size displays people purchase and dress in costume, Heath assumes, at least that is until Simone points out that one looks uncannily like Derrick, a boy she used to date.

Everything begins to add up as Heath walks up and pokes the mannequin, nothing plastic about the figure. Derrick it seems is just one of countless others in a cluttered crowd there, each of them appearing frozen in a moment of time.

Torn between running and getting away from this insanity, as the freaked out Simone wants to do, and investigating to discover what actually has happened to apparently most of the shoppers or staff, the three are thrust into a most unexpected and scary mystery.

Always a bit of an admitted perv, Heath is the one who discovers an all important clue. The Halloween Blanking Lights are made by a company he is only too familiar with, one he has read about, a company called Trance-tory.

Supposedly they make millions of common products, and while their production varies, one thing remains the same. Every product in one way or another relates to sexual kinks. But were these lights actually mislabeled at all or has Heath just discovered what Blanking Lights are really meant to do?

Will Heath be the hero and free a crowd of Halloween shoppers and staff from a moment frozen in time? Will he finally be respected by his two closest friends, Eva and Simone? Or will Heath use the Blanking Lights to have as much time as he wanted with his two friends, discovering some truly twisted fun that can be had by stopping time with a couple of cute coeds at your disposal?

Find out in the ever building mystery of fearful frights that is Blanking Lights.