Weekend Writing Prompt: The Halloween happening that got a bit too real

WRITING PROMPT: “The Night It Happened”Feel free to take the following prompt home or post a response (500 words or fewer, funny, sad or stirring) in the Comments section below….

WRITING PROMPT: "The Night It Happened"
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Take one of the seasonal Halloween offerings—a haunted house, a haunted amusement park, a haunted maze, a haunted hay ride, a ghost tour, a booze-infused costume party—and write a scene about what took place there last Halloween that will forever be referred to in conversation as "The Night It Happened."

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Zachary Petit is a freelance journalist and editor, and a lifelong literary and design nerd. He's also a former senior managing editor of Writer’s Digest magazine. Follow him on Twitter @ZacharyPetit.