Word for Word: Random

I’m in a writers’ group that meets on Zoom, though before the pandemic we met in person. Every week, we do a writing prompt: someone gives a page number, and our organizer picks a word from a huge dictionary. We write for five minutes. In this example, the word is: random.

Here’s a “haunted” miniature room I made.

My choice of abandoned old houses wasn’t random: I chose Whistlethwaite Manor as a place to squat because I knew it had a reputation for being haunted. I…