Enter your story (600 words or less) to NPR's "Three Minute Fiction" contest.
Each round, our judges throw out a challenge. This time, your story must begin with the line, "Some people swore that the house was haunted." It must end with, "Nothing was ever the same again after that."
Author Michael Cunningham is the judge (and he also came up with the opening and closing lines.
FMI: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129752769
