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  Hey all!  I’m back from Phili (waving to everyone who was at the Greater Phili Christian Writer’s Conference!) and ready to talk…SUSPENSE!  I taught this class for the first time last week – and, as I was thinking about how to talk about suspense had, of course, to tell the story of Nikki Anderson’s haunted house.  (just skip ahead if you’ve already heard this).   Twelve years old.  Halloween.  Me and the neighbor boy.  We stood outside my friend Nikki’s house from which oozed eerie cackling laughter and fake smoke and trembled.  We’d heard her father was transforming the house for our yearly trick and treat around the neighborhood, but for the first time, I feared entering the one-story 1970’s rambler.  My little heart thundered in my chest…what if something, you […]