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"We're here" Greg called as he parked the car amongst about 20 other cars. It was a beautiful fall day and when Aleck had woken up that morning he hadn't expected to have to visitors. The first had been Mark wanting to come over to play a game. The second had been Greg the bear illustrator he sometimes worked with. Greg had left his husband Frank paws deep in inks and pencils working on some comic, he had come over because of a flyer he had received in the mail advertising a fun time at a local corn maze. So into the car they had bundled themselves and after about an hour's drive outside of New Sky. Aleck had taken a look at the odd flyer.

It was on a creamy white paper with gold embossed lettering describing good old fashioned fall/Halloween fun. There was supposed to be fun in a corn maze, apple bobbing, pumpkin carving, a hay ride and later on at night more fun in the "haunted corn maze". Aleck read all this out to the happy nods of the other two. While he read over the flyer he tried to find the owner and the operator but didn't have much luck. That niggled slightly in the back of his mind but in the spirits his friends were in he didn't want to bring them down so he just let it go.

They got out and made their way over to the ticket booth. A grinning fox sold them their tickets and encouraged them to have a good time at the corn maze. Then he went back to reading a local paper. Aleck, Mark, and Greg left the entrance gate and headed into the main part of the corn maze, which was set up in a small part like a carnival. Off to one side were a lot of booths selling different snacks and drinks. Off to the other were some of the games and activities open for play. Tables in the back were set up with lots of carved and uncarved pumpkins and different furs were cutting into gourds with passion and zeal. In the far back was the cornfield and cut in one part was the entrance to the corn maze.

From the ground level the maze looked much like any field of corn and was impossible to tell that anything but corn was there. A friendly looking scare crow was hung on a pole at the entrance and an attendant was there smiling and calling for people to come and try the maze. Aleck led the way over to the attendant who smiled and ushered them in giving each of them a whistle to blow in case they couldn't find the path out. Then she directed them to go on in and have a good time.

The three furs headed into the entrance and the shadow of the corn. They slowly headed deeper and deeper into the maze following no particular path. They came to a fork in the maze and aleck led the way to the left. They went down a little bit more and then turned a corner. What they found surprised them. There sitting as if it had sprouted up out of the ground was a pumpkinesqe toilet and hanging above it on a pole was a scarecrow flapping gently in the fall breeze. The toilet itself looked like someone had combined the basic idea of bathroom technology with the autumn gourd and this is what had grown it had a large half shell hollowed out bowl, a large flattened pumpkin tank complete with twisted viney handle.

Mark took a look at it lifting the gourd like lid and the strange seat he even flushed it and much like any other throne it flushed. "Well I'm stumped" he said

"What do you think it means?" Greg asked as he watched the dog investigating the fixture.

"I don't know I just know that for some odd reason there is a toilet here complete with fall décor he he ha ha ha" Mark laughed before coming back over to join his friends.

"Let's keep moving" Aleck suggested he had a private feeling about that toilet but he wasn't sure after all they hadn't seen any restrooms it could just be that like the old country custom when you really gotta go head for the corn field. Still it niggled at Aleck.

The trio continued through the maze passing turns and corners, meeting and startling and laughing with other furs. They came across many other pumpkin toilets and scarecrows. Each of the other fixtures and its straw guardian were dressed differently or designed differently. At one point Aleck carefully climbed up on the tank of one to look over the top of the field. Across the field he saw many other poles in lots of what looked like dead ends. Each pole meant another toilet, and somehow in Aleck's mind he could almost imagine something more sinister then just good fall fun but in spirit with the day he kept quiet climbed down put on a big smile and said "looks like we are almost to the other side."

The trio made it to the other side of the field just in time to catch the hayride back to the main portion of the corn maze. They enjoyed themselves for the rest of the day eating far too much candy too many ciders for which each made a private trip to one of the toilets they had found earlier but located next to the pickup and drop off of the hay ride. Aleck and Greg had a pumpkin carving challenge to see who was better the wordsmith or the illustrator, somehow Mark was able to beat both of them. Still feeling slightly stung Greg and Aleck had fun decking Mark in pumpkin goo.

The day continued on and towards evening many people came together in the food section for an impromptu communal meal. There was chili and hotdogs and barbecue sandwiches for all. The owner even joined everyone eating and laughing it all up and at the end he stood at the head of the table tapped a spoon on a glass and announced, "Ladies and Gentle furs I'm so glad you have enjoyed the fun here at the corn maze, the fun is still continuing and so if you will all climb on the wagons for the hayride we will be heading to the other side of the corn maze to the bonfire" he then nodded and sat back down.

The mass of furs at the tables cheered him and raised glasses of cider in a toast. Then everyone went back to eating finally finishing their meal with different autumn themed pies. Aleck had a piece of pumpkin mark had a piece of apple and Greg had a piece of pumpkin, apple, and pecan. The three then joined the cue of furs as they forty or so plus people there climbed into three wagons and rode happily to a large bonfire pit behind the maze.

Everyone had a great deal of fun on the ride and even more at the bonfire. They roasted more hotdogs and popped popcorn and then every fur happily joined in roasting and toasting marshmallows for s'mores. Then as the coals of wood began to settle down and people were feeling a little drowsy some of the furs began to tell ghost stories. Visions of ghosts and ghouls and witches danced among the crackling coals and rode the smoke high into the wind. Aleck even had fun telling a few old chestnuts and even one he made up on the fly involving a hungry monster living deep in the caves under the sewers just waiting for someone to be flushed to feed him.

It was getting later now and more and more people who had young furs had already left it was now just a large meeting of adults enjoying the cool night, warm fire, and good company. Everyone was enjoying the music coming from a small radio when the owner returned.

"ladies and gentle furs I want to announce that the annual haunted corn maze will be commencing shortly free flashlights are being provided at the entrance so if you're in the mood for a good scare please gather over there" he said before heading over to talk with one of the attendants.

Aleck was the first in his group up and helped Mark and Greg get up off the grass. The three friends joined the 20 or so remaining furs and headed to the entrance to the corn maze. Each was given a flash light and a glowstick by an attendant. The owner smiled at everyone then bowed signaling they could now enter the maze. Furs rushed into the maze no one noticing that the attendants had gone missing in the rush.

Aleck, Mark, and Greg did their best to keep up but by the time they were in the maze the other furs had left them far behind heading down the many paths in the twisting turning space. They were making their way slowly when they heard a loud shriek from somewhere nearby followed by a lot of giggling. This shriek was returned with more and more as the attendants now dressed as different things leapt form dark corners some even slipping out of the rows of corn to scare people. They had just turned a corner when two scarecrows jumped out behind them and made a hissing shushing sound like the rustle of the cornstalks. The three friends turned and hightailed it down another part of the maze until they couldn't run anymore and they fell over each other laughing and guffawing at how silly they had been.

After they had caught their breathe they returned to trying to find their way out of the maze. They kept going down one lone path until they came to a fork, Mark led them down the right path this time and before long they came to one of the dead ends with the toilet. This time however something was very, very different. Aleck was the first one to notice that the scarecrow had disappeared from its pole. Mark and Greg shivered when Aleck pointed this out.

"What do you think that means?" Greg asked

"I think it means that nothing is really as it seems here at the maze" Aleck replied sagely.

"Let's keep moving" Mark suggested

"Hold on" Greg said "I've gotta make use of the facilities while I'm here eh heh heh heh" the bear chuckled before marching up to the pumpkin toilet putting the seat in the right position and preparing to take a dump.

Aleck and Mark retreated around the corner to give him privacy and to discuss things. "I am confused here Aleck those commodes look like flush a fuck property but they can't be" mark said

"I don't know what's going on I just know this whole place seems rather odd to me" Aleck replied

"Well maybe it's just a... yearrrrrrcghggghghghghghghhg mmmmgggllgpgphg" Mark was interrupted by a sudden shout coming from back where the pair had left Greg attending to natures call.

They ran back to look for him and where just in time to see a rustling in the corn surrounding the toilet and the floating remains of Greg's last meal in the bowl. Aleck flushed the mess out of habit and looked at Mark, "something is not right in this corn maze Mark something isn't right here at all" Aleck then lead Mark off through the maze hoping that nothing bad had happened to Greg. They came upon the center of the maze where a mockup of stone henge stood and the owner sat smiling at everyone.

"I hope you've been enjoying my maze" he sneered

"We want to know what's going on right now" aleck said

"It's simple very simple you've heard of the cubs of the corn right?" he asked "well this is the real equivalent of it only they aren't cubs they're scarecrows and they are hungry. Welcome dear friends to the Commode Corn maze where you will leave feeling flushed" he began to laugh maniacally as Aleck and Mark took off down a path trying to find a way out.

They turned down a path were they found two scarecrows swallowing two furs easily as the two had so easily swallowed the chili earlier. Aleck half expected to see them push out of the chests of the scarecrows covered in straw, instead he saw paws pressing out on distended shirt covered stomachs. The two straw creatures turned and looked at Aleck and Mark and grinned with bristle straw teeth. Aleck and Mark showed them their tails and ran.

"It has to be the attendants" Mark said as they ran.

"I doubt that quite a bit" Aleck said as they watched and attendant dressed in a dark cloak be shoved up the ass of another scarecrow. Aleck pulled the stunned Mark along in a rush. They rounded corner after corner going no way in particular until Aleck felt sure it was safe to rest. The two sat on the ground and panted slightly trying to stop the pounding in their hearts.

"Wh-wh-what do we do n-n-now?" Mark asked

"w-w-we do wh-what any furs in a horror movie type situation do, we run as far as we can" Aleck panted

They got up and they started to move again this time slowly trying their best not to be caught. Aleck put a finger to his maw and slipped forward. He turned his head around the corner to check and see if it was clear when he turned back he was just in time to see Mark's paws being slurked up the shiny bound straw ass of a scarecrow who reached back just to stuff his victims feet in and let out a slight fart before turning around and pulling up its pants and tying the string at its pants and lurching forward unbalanced by its new load.

Aleck watched with the fascinated horror as the straw creature began to follow him. He turned and ran faster than before paying little attention to where he was going. He wound up at a dead end with one of the pumpkin toilets. Aleck sat himself down and began to rest. He had done much of what the straw creatures had done to other furs himself but never with the kind of anger and hungry malice he had seen in the creatures eyes. Aleck had rushed in without a light and as his pulse slowed to a more normal and steady bead he realized just how dark it was. He was beginning to shiver sitting there on that pumpkin toilet when he heard a rustle. Instantly alerted and worried her did his best to keep an eye on the path that lead this way. That was his mistake while he was looking forward a scarecrow dropped its pants behind him and then dropped its straw cheeks and strangely organic pucker down over the wolf slowly slurking him deep in its bowels. The creature eventually reached the ground and forced its prey's feet in then grabbed its pants and re-attired itself before heading off to hunt more.

Aleck hadn't seen the attack coming at all and was utterly shocked when he was bumped by rough straw cheeks and forced into the strangely organic place. He felt himself traveling slowly all the way to the creature's stomach where he quickly passed out still wondering why?

The straw creatures patrolled the entire maze eating every fur they could find either the natural way or by sending them in the backdoor. As the sun's rays began to shine over the maze grounds they began to return to their areas. Before they climbed up to their poles each scarecrow removed its pants or dropped its overalls and perched on the seat. One by one they began to unload the mass they had taken in the night before in a horrible brown plunket. Each of the creatures finished within its own time listening quietly for its mate to finish. They continued on for several minutes the pumpkin toilets beneath them expanding to fit the mass inside. When they had each finished unloading they reached to the cornstalks beside them and pulled off leaves to wipe themselves clean. Then each one stood up pulled up its pants or its overalls and as one they flushed the toilets they guarded and climbed back up to the poles they called home. The toilets swirled and gurgled sucking the masses of former furs down each one finishing it's flush by sucking down a grinning skull and from somewhere deep in the pipes something groaned with an unearthly moan and then silence fell again.