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Three-Minute Fiction!! Round five on NPR!

It's time again /lit/

Write a story under 600 words, your story must begin with the following line:

"Some people swore that the house was haunted."

Plus, your story must end with this line:

"Nothing was ever the same again after that."

Deadline is next week! Send em into NPR's website. If you win you get interviewed on NPR, get your story read, and get two signed books by Pulitzer prize winner Michael Cunningham.

>> No.1139035
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So what are we suppose to post here?

>> No.1139038

>>1139035
I think this is just a heads-up for people on /lit/ who are interested in this sort of thing.

>> No.1139043
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What do you all think about Michael Cunningham's books?

>> No.1139071

I'm entering

>> No.1139154

Totally entering.

>> No.1139158

hook us up with a link?

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>>1139158
Google.com
NPR Three-Minute Fiction Round five

christ

>> No.1139172

Pulitzer prize winners of the last three decades are usually very overrated. Especially anything they put out after their prize winner. I don't even know what this thread is here for. Very conspicuous marketing maybe?

>> No.1139174

>>1139172

b/c it's a writing exercise maybe??????

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>>1139172
>NPR
>marketing
Are you dense? It's fucking NPR

>> No.1139184

don't live in the states, shit sux

>> No.1139192

>>1139174
Why not just make a thread where people write a story and OP chooses his favorite and buys a book for the person?

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>>1139192
That would be a great idea if I wasn't a starving writer making ends meet by working at a coffee shop in lower Manhattan.

>> No.1139218

>>1139199
Hey, which coffee shop? I'll be in the city monday. You just might meet a mysterious stranger with a package just for you.

Wait, that sounds bad....

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>>1139218
Landmark Coffee Shop, I'm the only red head in the building.

>> No.1139240

>consequences were never the same

>> No.1139245

>>1139192

In a way that is what this is except you get a chance to be on the radio, there is no money lost, and the op isn't the person rifling through the crap.

>> No.1139266

>>1139224
Is that really where you are? Need pic of red hair for proof because I will come see you.

>> No.1139281

>>1139245
Except you don't get to choose what book you want, and you get to be on the radio (and who wants to be on NPR Jesus Christ) and since this is /lit/ anybody willing to do anything like that would probably also be willing to rifle through the crap.

>> No.1139306

>>1139281
Like anything posted there really matters.
You're arguing to argue aren't you?

>> No.1139311

>>1139306
You know it, bro.

>> No.1139522

>>1139306

hey man, someone who says there isn't a reason to do something but only gives reasons to do something else instead of reasons not to do something is either a troll or too stupid to address. So don't argue with that dude

>> No.1141254

bumpan

>> No.1142563

how's everybody coming with this?

Did anyone read the previous winner? It sucked.

>> No.1142571

>"Nothing was ever the same again after that."

What a horribly structured sentence.

>> No.1142576

>>1142571

I agree. Both sentences required blow blue balls.