Sweet Tooth

[Jenjin]

The mouth opened and closed like an eye, like a door, like anything but a mouth.

 

Scorched candy corn and melted toffees

[Invidiana]

Throw all your candy corn and toffee into the bonfire, then stand back and revel in the smell of burnt sugar rising from the flames. The melting mass of candy corn has an undertone of sweet almond, and there is also a something of a caramel undertone from the toffee. There is something both recognizable and unrecognizable about the candies that has been sacrificed. They are, and they are not. When the fire goes out, the edges of this monstrous lump of sugar have been completely burnt, while the rest has been caramelized,  a ghost of what it used to be and also a monster.