| NPR's "Three Minute Fiction" Contest |
November, 2010 |
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NPR
recently held its fifth round of a contest
called "Three
Minute Fiction."
The basic premise is that listeners send in an
original work of fiction which can be read in
about three minutes. I had wanted to do an
entry for this contest before, but this was the
first time I got my act in gear to get a
submission sent in before the deadline.
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this round, the rules were that the story had be
600 words or less. It had to start with the
sentence, "Some people swore the house was
haunted." It had to end with the sentence,
"Nothing was ever the same after that."
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For me, the biggest challenge about this story was its ending. What could happen in a house, haunted or not, that could change the life or lives of one or more persons? Since it was “said” to be haunted, maybe it wasn’t. And who was saying it? So I thought the “Nothing ever the same” should apply perhaps to an entire town. But what could be that big? |
| Well, here's
what I came up with! It didn't win the
contest, and it didn't even make the final
round. But I'm still happy with this
little story. |
| The Last Last Supper |