Welcome to our first-ever user-generated short story. We hope you help us write the story by adding comments below. We’ll kick it off with the opening few sentences, then turn it over to you, the readers, for developing the story. Just add the next sentences as comments, and let the story grow. Here’s the beginning.

It was a dark and stormy night. I wanted something sensational to do. I didn’t much feel like another tour of the White House or Congress. I’d seen them many times before. Instead, I felt like having a new thrill. So I went down to the Newseum. But I didn’t have any money on me. I sat outside on the curb and asked people walking by for a buck.  I would need $20 to get in. After an hour of panhandling, I had enough cash. I proudly walked up to the Newseum entrance. “One, please,” I told the attendant in my strongest voice. “That’ll be twenty dollars,” she said. “No problem. I have it right here.” I gave her twenty dollar bills, then entered the Newseum, giddy with excitement about seeing the newest museum in town. But little did I know at the moment, that would be the biggest mistake of my life. Within an hour, I’d be dead.

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