A stolen ring, fear of spiders and a sinister stranger.

That's your prompt!

'Three Items' was just a title I came up with for the contest. You don't need to use that as your title.

Can you use it as your title? Sure!

Since it's a short stories contest, I'll put the maximum word limit at 4000 words. Can you go over by a paragraph or two? Sure thing. Remember, just because the maximum word limit is 4000 words, doesn't mean you can't write something as short as two sentences if that's what you enjoy writing.

Judging will be community vote - like count.

Looking forward to reading your stories and HAVE FUN WRITING!