NPR Wants Just 600 Words

I'm not a fan of short fiction. But when my youngest brother sent me a link to NPR's Three-Minnute Fiction Round Five, I was lured into writing a 600-word story that begins with "Some people swore that the house was haunted" and ends with "Nothing was ever the same again after that."

I haven't sent it in yet. (The deadline is September 26.) I will, though.

I found writing the story a nice change of pace from my complex, multi-layered fiction. It was also a no-pressure task after my we were out ...