EXCLUSIVE: A 39-page haunted house short story by first time writer Victor Sweetser has created a frenzy, with five bids in for movie rights and more coming, including some of the big names in the genre game.
The Occupant went to market yesterday, and the reaction was quick. This is the story of a 100-year old Victorian home offered up for free, with the caveat the new owner has to put it on a flatbed and move it from the lot it occupies.
The story begins cleverly with texts back and forth between a husband and a wife, who cannot get over their good luck to be chosen to take the house.
Naturally, we learn there is no such thing as a free house. The narrator is a teen named Chloe, who lives in the town where the home is being moved.
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