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"role": "user",
"content": "People Keep Looking At Me Weird Lately And I Don't Know Why"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "I'm honestly freaking out and I can't make sense of it.\r\nLately, something weird has been happening. It feels like I’m living in some sort of twisted version of real... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Mom keeps saving me, and I want her to stop."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "My mom has been saving me my whole life.\r\nShe carried my limp body from the bathtub, all the way to the emergency room.\r\nBut I was already dead. I had been dead for hours, my blo... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "I’m sorry to interrupt, but you keep ignoring us and you need to realize the truth."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Do you remember when we scooped you out and placed you in a jar? I suppose not. You weren’t awake for the experience. Though somewhere deep dow... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Guns and Croissants"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "On the 18th of May in 2018, Margaret Flowers had just turned 73. She decided to make pastries for her grandchildren—a couple of them students at Santa Fe High School—as she knew, they would be coming over la... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "I slept with my Best Friend's Boyfriend to Prove he was a Cheater and Now She's trying to Kill me"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Yesterday she backed up while I was thoughtlessly walking around the car, and almost ran me over- I jumped out of the way in the ... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "The Seagulls and the Woman on the Bridge"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "The seagulls looped under and over the high suspension bridge hanging over a wide strip of the Atlantic ocean which separated two populated land masses. Seals frolicked lazily in the ste... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "My name is Ivan Boris and I’m the creator of the first human flower"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "My darling Mayflower holds the spray bottle of weed killer like a child holding an infant.\r\n“Please, Mayflower, think of what this means for us.” I desperate... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Don't forget to bring your shovel"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "“I need your help. We’re going to take out my son’s killer. You can’t ask questions. And it will be dangerous.”\r\nWhen I got that call from my brother, I was shocked. Not because of what he wa... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "There's no air left to breathe."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "The treasure wasn’t worth being kidnapped by pirates.\r\nTied to a cushioned throne, I nearly slid off with each sway of the boat.\r\nBreathe, I told myself, wrists twitching, trying to break fre... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Jesus wanted me to betray Him"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "In the last days, He looked at me strangely — as if He knew everything was meant to happen and was waiting for it with anticipation.\r\nThere was no love left in His eyes — only coldness, an abyss ... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Death's trying to kill my family."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "When we were born, Mom tried to drown us in the birthing pool.\r\nShe took her own life in solitary confinement.\r\nBut I was convinced Mommy dearest made a deal with the devil to finish what s... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Intruders Are Trying To Kill Us"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "I awoke to a red light flashing in my eyes and a calm, steady voice coming over the bedroom speakers.\r\n“I’m sorry to wake you, Alex, but I’m detecting an intrusion downstairs.”\r\nIn the three ... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "How to Skin a Cat"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "“Really Derrick, how many ways can you skin a cat?”\r\nDerrick’s face twisted in disgust, \"Come on man, can’t you say something like ‘how many ways can you cook an egg’?”\r\nSam snorted, “Kinda defeats the pu... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Failure to Thrive"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Just three words, but that was all it took to effectively crush my heart.\r\nLittle baby Franklin wasn’t hitting his developmental milestones, staying skinny and frail, not even wanting to interact with his mo... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "There are worse ways to die."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Sadie Bell drowned off the coast of Cocoa Beach.\r\nIt was the talk of the entire senior class. They had a memorial service and everything.\r\nSo you can imagine my surprise when she texted me askin... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "With Regard to Mr. Hawk"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "The grip-tape felt familiarly faded.\r\nHis feet felt pre-pubescent and small, angled in the proximity of a shell-toed sneaker.\r\nThe same kind of shoe he used to skate with.\r\nThe smell, familiar, too... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "I’ve tried keeping it to myself."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "For weeks, I didn’t talk to anyone. I turned my phone off. I stopped going online. I avoided eye contact in the grocery store, like it might leak out through my pupils.\r\nBut it didn’t matter.\... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Four Minutes to Boil an Egg"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "They say it takes four minutes to boil an egg. I say that’s a lie.\r\nI time everything. I have since I was ten. That was the year I learned how long it takes for something to stop moving after it’s ... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "I want to play again"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Humans are fascinating beings,intelligent and yet so fragile,vibrant spirits limited by the weakness of their physical form.\r\nI always admired the fact that it took so much to break them mentally, I've se... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "I'm cursed to kill my lovers."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "When I was eight, I fell in love with a butterfly I named Aris.\r\nHe was beautiful. Glass wings resembling paper.\r\nI fell in love with Aris’s wings, how safe I felt with him dancing across my no... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Something's happening to my exes"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "The Uber was already waiting when I opened Kat's message. We used to share a dorm room back in college.\r\nkat: just heard aaron died last night.\r\nThat shocked me. Aaron was my college boyfrie... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "First one to fall asleep dies."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "“Sorry I’m late, sluts!” Becca shimmied through the front door of my apartment, thirty minutes late, with a bottle of pinot in each hand.\r\nWhich, if you knew her, was so very Becca. She used to ... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Welcome To Bunker 18"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "\"Keep up, folks! Let’s not dawdle!”\r\nThere was a sudden hiss from the ceiling. My shoes were still wet. Ash mixed with blood, I think. Someone behind me coughed.\r\nClaire, or so her name-tag said, walke... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "It Sang Me to Sleep."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "During my first year in college, I started being haunted by what seemed as a vivid, recurring dream..\r\nI’m just glad to still be alive.\r\nThe pattern that formed quickly was this.\r\nOnce a month, my dre... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Waking to a cracked motel door"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Id already had an extra long week by the time I made it to Page, Arizona. I’d always wanted to visit Antelope Canyon and since I was already there for work, I decided now was the time.\r\nI’d put ... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Say Hi To Mr. Tuttles"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "A cartoon clown was waving and smiling under the \"Say Hi To Mr. Tuttles\" caption. My friend and I exchanged glances. It wasn't unusual for our apartments to put up posters of events going on in town, but... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "I need to lose weight"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "She used to be very thin,\r\nbut at some point, she started gaining weight.\r\nHowever, she couldn’t stop eating.\r\nAnd when she could no longer see her old self in the mirror,\r\nshe made up her mind:\r\... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "I REALLY don't want to graduate."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Our third-period math class was famous, or… infamous, for chasing away substitutes.\r\nTen subs had walked out.\r\nThree had mental breakdowns.\r\nOne included us in her you-know-what note.\r\nW... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "I just wanted to be free."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "That subtle cold... it creeps down my spine like frost beneath the skin. It’s the kind of feeling you get as a kid when you break something valuable and know you’re going to be punished—no yelling yet,... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "He Told Me To Run"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Mrs. Evelyn Hart\r\nProvidence, Rhode Island\r\nNovember 10th, 1944\r\nDear Evelyn,\r\nI pray this letter finds you. I don’t know if the censors will let it pass. But I have to write it. You deserve the truth,... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Nobody Goes to Null"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "When I was a young boy I was provided an atlas for my 8th birthday. This ignited my fascination with geography and, as I grew older, found myself visiting all the corners of the world.\r\nEverywhere except N... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "How to Take Apart a Fan"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Hello.\r\nWelcome to another episode of Mechanical Mike.\r\nAs always, if you enjoy my videos, please like and subscribe. It really helps a lot, and once I hit another milestone I'll do another subscribe... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Tips to survive as a zombie."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Hello. If you can only read this part, you now a zombie. Too bad. Tips to survive as a zombie:\r\nGroup\r\n- Stick together with fellow zombies. Hunt as a pack. Do not walk alone, easy target. 10-20... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "I'm supposed to be an angel."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "I felt my best friend going into labor.\r\nThe pain was like electric shocks writhing up my spine, contorting my gut, sending me crumpling to my knees, my mouth opening and closing.\r\nThe thick tas... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Bring Offerings to Shower At Night"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "That's always been the custom in our household; if it's past midnight and you need to shower, you bring an offering to set on the counters outside of the bathrooms. They can be anything, from ... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Men You Shouldn't Talk To"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Jade picked up the sheet, read the title, and scoffed.\r\n“I’ll talk to whoever I want to,” she said to no one in particular.\r\nStill, she kept reading. She really needed this hotel receptionist job, ... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "School Trip to a Body Farm"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "I know this is not a regular body farm, and that there’s no real rotting corpses here. But bringing the kids to a place like this is still super weird.\r\nSome smart people are developing this new syn... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "To whoever finds me"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Running short on food. Two days’ worth, three if I stretch it. I am writing this in case of my death. These words must mean something. If not for anyone else, then for me. The end of the world happens so fas... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "He Taught Me to Butcher"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "The flesh still pulsed.\r\nI swear.\r\nAnd he… savored it like a sacred meal.\r\nI watched from the broken window, unable to look away.\r\nI don’t know what terrified me more—what I saw or what I felt.\r... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "She Waited For Me To Notice"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "We used to live in a house we called Michelle Circle. The neighborhood kids whispered stories about it—something about a fire, a death in the basement—but none of it felt real until the day I saw her... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "A Flight To Catch"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "I was sitting in the airport terminal when a loud voice drew my attention.\r\n“You have to help me!”\r\nThe voice belonged to a woman standing at the gate. She was dressed for a church service, small in statur... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "To Be Under Dr. Walker’s Scalpel"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "When Maggie met Dr. Walker, she fell in love. Of course, the surgeon had spurned her advances, telling her that since she was a nurse in his department, they could never be together.\r\nBut Magg... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "A Day Pass to Days Past"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "“But won’t there be rust everywhere? Won’t we get tendies-night-us?” Luke asked from the backseat, forcing Vera to bite her lip. She didn’t want the boy to think she was laughing at him.\r\nMispronunciat... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "I'm destined to drown with him."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "I was building sandcastles on the beach when I heard it: drip, drip, drip.\r\nIt sounded like rain. I held out my hand.\r\nNothing.\r\nI tipped my head back, mouth open.\r\nBut it was sunny.\r\n“... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Hired to Kill a Little Boy."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "I never particularly liked killing. I only did it because that’s all I knew, and it kept my stomach full.\r\nOrphaned at 7, my Grandpa, who was an assassin, took me in. By the age of 15, I had become... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "How I grew to love School."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "I'm a pretty average school kid, decent grades, small social circle. But there are subjects I love and are fascinated about, specifically the practical heavy subjects like biology.\r\nMy fascination s... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "How to Make a God"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "“Thank you for the opportunity,” I smiled, “I won’t let you down.”\r\nFinally, after five excruciating interviews, I had been chosen to be a research assistant to the famous Dr. Harold Bell.\r\n“I bet you’d li... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Hurts to Remember; Hurts to Forget"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Alice sat on the edge of her son's bed.\r\n\"Do you want to talk about what happened at school today?\"\r\nHe frowned and turned away from her.\r\n\"You gave Robbie a bloody nose, Liam. You kn... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Today, I'm going to be matched."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Standing in front of my mirror, I make myself pretty.\r\nLipstick. Eyeliner. Foundation.\r\nI'm not used to makeup, at least not this type of makeup.\r\nThe kind that feels and looks like paint, ... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Nothing to Admire"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "“You have no qualities to be proud of.”\r\n“Spare me your insults and give me back my son!”\r\nBy the time I realised what I’d done, it was too late. I’d strode forward in my anger and broken the binding circl... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "To Fight Back"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "When the rails to Cadenza were pulled up, they left ol' 5-Spot in a spur beside the water tower and oil column. These would remain as a testament to the Cadenza Oak Lumber Company, and were set to remain there for... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "My uber brought me to hell."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "The Uber driver arrived almost immediately after I requested it.\r\nI got in. The driver barely acknowledged me—his face was expressionless, hands tight on the wheel. He looked rushed, like he had so... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "They told us to be quiet."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Cal took his own life.\r\nWhen celebrities die, the same questions are asked.\r\nWas it drugs? Alcohol? Was their death suspicious?\r\nCal’s death was silent. Painful.\r\nOfficially, it was ruled a dro... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "An Eid to Remember"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "All of us meet at my Grand dad’s place during the penultimate days of Ramadan. My folks, cousins and the whole family on my mum’s side. You know the deal. The usual festive family gathering. There was somethi... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "To love a night time Devil"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "I am a pretty heavy sleeper. So it was weird when I woke up one night. I looked at the clock. It read 2:53 am. Relieved that I still have some decent hours of sleep still in my clutches, I decided to ... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Awoke to being buried, alive."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Drip.\r\nDrip.\r\nDrip.\r\nRain seeps through the cracks, cold and steady, pulling me awake. The darkness around me is absolute, the air thin and hard to breathe. Wait… Where am I? This isn’t home.... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Printer Told Me to Do It"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Day 1\r\nThe office stinks.\r\nNot just of cheap cologne and microwaved fish, but of human rot.\r\nNot literal rot. Not yet.\r\nBut the rot of time wasted. Life pissed away.\r\nA slow decay in a polyest... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Time Traveled to the Wild West"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "The wild west was a time of migration for many settlers seeking land and fortune. One town during this era always stood out to me: Tombstone, California. A small town of 93 people, all of whom van... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "They Wanted to Take My Child"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "I sprinted through the cornfield, the stalks clawing at me like fingers. Behind me, I could hear them—smell the acrid burn of their torches.\r\nThe mob.\r\nI clutched my child to my chest, the only ... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "How to Survive a Haunted House."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "We recently moved into an old house in the suburbs. While checking the mailbox, I found a strange pamphlet inside—I’m not sure what to make of it.\r\n_____________________________________________... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "What Would You Like To Eat?"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "The roasted chicken’s breast quivered like a heartbeat.\r\nThe Nereus drifted through deep space, months from resupply. Meals came from the BioFeast Replicator, a new marvel of engineered sustenance,... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "I Was Never Meant to Exist"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "I used to love football. But I could never play. I was born half-paralyzed, trapped in a wheelchair my whole life.\r\nDad told me it was some kind of medical condition, but I never really understood. ... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "I refuse to correct him"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "The first time Dad forgot my name, he had his classic fishing smile. His temples were crinkled, blonde hair sheets were tapping his beard. The air smelled like it should have, algae and rotting everythin... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "There Used to Be More"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "“Cinnamon Swirl, Frosted Blueberry, Fruity Pebbles.”\r\nAll the regulars are there. Many wouldn’t be disappointed at this display of Pastry Puffs. Still a popular snack after all these decades, it appeared... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "There's Something Next to Me"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "I sat down on my couch with my laptop. It was pitch black in the rest of my apartment. I hoped it would be a normal Friday night; just sitting down to watch YouTube until my laptop died.\r\nI clicke... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "How to Administer a Shot"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Carefully flip the subject on its back and scan the barcode to check the weight. For best results, it should typically weigh between 2 and 4 kg and should be about 50 inches long.\r\nGently extend the s... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Twelve Steps To The Grave"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Joe stumbled out of the bar, keys in hand. He was pretty sure he was fine for the short drive home. As he walked toward his car, he noticed a sign: \"Midnight AA.\"\r\nWell, he had some time to kill to... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Moths to Her Flame"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Her father doesn't talk about her birth—because he can't remember. If it ever happened. This child burned with an unexplainable glow. It was subtle—never enough to be unnatural, unmistakable, like a distant s... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "I Was Supposed to Drown"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Concrete hardens quick around your ankles. But no one talks about how much it burns. It eats through your shoes, chews into the soles of your feet.\r\nBut that was the least of my concerns. I sat at the ... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Children Keep Falling to Their Death"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Retirement didn’t suit Wilford, and as such he managed to finagle his way into being the town's Fire Chief. The job was mostly paperwork. After all, Beaumont only had about five thousand res... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Like calls to like"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "There was nothing off about the man. He was tall and lean, with a thin mustache and a crooked smile. He would go to his regular 9-5, Monday through Friday, and get all his work done early just so he could spe... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "All Praise is Due to Him"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "The sky is boiling. I can only breathe when I bury my face in the earth. The soil is rich, and I plan to grow in it. God lets me breathe in the dirt; He is the most merciful. He lets me out to plunder t... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Billy Wasn't Supposed to be Alive"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "That day, Billy, Chester, and I were hanging out on the hill near our school. We had been there countless times. People camp there every now and then in the summer.\r\nBilly stood near the edge... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "We were told not to look."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Airplanes scared me long before I ever stepped inside one. Not the physics of flight—the helplessness. The way a crash would turn you into a statistic, a black box transcript, a punchline about “final ... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Too cold outside for angels to..."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Street kids were going missing.\r\nBen, the leader of our gang, was the latest to disappear.\r\n\"He's been taken by the white van,\" was the rumor.\r\nSo, the shelter—where kids were vanishing... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Back to Basics"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "‘Now, this is what kids these days are missing,’ Marge told herself.\r\nShe’d found the group on Facebook. It was called Back to Basics.\r\nShe saw some familiar faces, including Shirley Chandler. She’d liked her... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Flying Too Close To The Moon."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Fucking idiots. They always said I could never do it, that I was flying too close to the sun. More like the moon. Just look who’s levitating upon the moon, and who’s making shitty scrap change at t... |
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Named DO I need to breathe?"
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Tears well up and I can feel the beat of my heart in my head. Thump... thump... thump... my raspy voice goes from harsh and and quick to slow deep and squeaky. My ears ring louder and louder. I scrat... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Welcome to the Puppet Show"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "It started with a string on my husband’s hand. He was handing me my morning coffee–one shot, lots of foamed milk, extra hot. As my fingers closed around the mug, I noticed the golden thread coming out... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "She's not supposed to be here"
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "I don’t know how long she’s been standing there.\r\nI noticed her when I got home from work. The house was pitch-black, save for the moonlight seeping in through the kitchen window. I flipped the l... |
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Transported To Another World..."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Today was normal as always I guess.\r\nPeople ignore me , they bully me , and more.\r\nAnyways , I have to sleep no-\r\nWhat's that blue floating thing?\r\nWait , it's sucking me in? Woa-\r\nAAHH... |
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "I've become addicted to online shopping."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "I used to be a nonbeliever.\r\nIt’s true.\r\nI used to think online shopping was dumb.\r\nIt was just another trend I never got around to, like TikTok or avocado toast, and now I was too... |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "I’m Worried About My Fellow Mom-To-Be"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "I loved John with all my heart; I’d known the day we met I’d do anything for him. We’d talked about our goals, and he’d confessed how much he’d always wanted to be a father. Despite my worr... |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "I forgot to water Mom's flowers."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Eight words.\r\nIt only took eight words to steal my breath.\r\n“Sweetie, did you remember to water the flowers?”\r\nMom never missed a morning. Always greeting the flowers before me and my sibl... |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "It Called to Me"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The door was an impossibility.\r\nMy mother said that it had been there since she was a little girl and that her mother had told her the same thing when mom was my age.\r\nBut if either of them was to be believe... |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "How to Kill A Tortoise"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "1 - “Who drank my whisky?” Tommy’s dad burst into the living room like a thrice brewed thunderstorm ready to pounce. His eyes, already heavily loaded with guilty verdict, darted to Luke, unfortunate to be... |
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Adapting to Any Terrible Stench, Eventually"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "“Daddy, where's Mommy?” Asked little Leo, one wickedly warm June morning. “And what's that terrible stench coming from under the woods behind our home?”\r\n“Don't dwell on such matter... |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "I Went To Visit My Boyfriend In The Country. I Might Never Leave."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "I parked my SUV and stepped onto an endless grassy field. This wasn’t my usual kind of place, but I knew how much Bruce loved his mountain getaway.\r\n“So you’re... |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "My MIL Almost Killed My Son To Prove I Was Exaggerating"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "“Mommy, I don’t feel good.”\r\nI rushed to Sammy - he was burning up. His breathing became shallow, then he collapsed in my arms. Panicking, I raced to my purse for the ep... |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "My Parents Picked Us from the Kid Store. I Want to Return My Brother"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "My parents told me I came from the Kid Store.\r\n\"It’s a magical place,\" Mommy said, smoothing my hair, \"where parents pick the perfect child.\"\r\nI liked... |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Gone to a Better Place, Supposedly"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "My boyfriend loves kitsch. We have three garden gnomes out front despite not actually having a garden, and most of the pictures on our walls are suspiciously wholesome and idealised. He’s an a... |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "I woke up to my wife whispering in my ear"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "At first, I thought I was dreaming.\r\nHer breath was warm against my skin, her voice a hush of static in the dark. I couldn’t make out the words, only the rhythm—soft, steady, insisten... |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "I suspect my husband is cheating. When I find her, I'm going to kill her."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "When I first met my husband it was like a comet fell from heaven and pierced my heart.\r\nIt was fate. In two weeks we were married.\r\nIt’s been almost ... |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "My boyfriend wanted to go on a camping trip. It made me see him in a whole new light."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "“Hold up,” I panted, clambering unsteadily over the jumble of roots beneath my feet, “you’re going too fast.”\r\nMy boyfriend, Matt, turned t... |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "How My Skin Began to Whisper"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "My skin whispers now. Not in tongues of flesh, but in the lexicon of rot—a crackling aria of blistered parchment, a sizzle of fat beneath flame. The mirror clings to its pretty fiction: the same ash... |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "I visited a fortune teller to see if my husband was having an affair."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "This was the first time I had gone to a fortune teller.\r\nIt was on an bad street in the city center, squeezed between a Chinese restaurant and a shady mass... |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "My HOA Is Trying To Ruin My Life"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "When my wife cheated and left me, I was devastated. The court forced us to sell the house, so I had to find a new place to live quickly. Fortunately, I had enough to buy a small place nearby wit... |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "One hundred steps to heaven, or a thousand steps to hell."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "When we got there, Lisa said. “I don’t want to climb up there.” “\r\nWhy not, are you still scared of what that old guy said?” I teased.\r\n“So what if I am?” she retort... |
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Every Day at 3:07 PM, My Cat Stares at the Wall for 23 Minutes. I Think He’s Going to Kill Me."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "I always wanted a cat.\r\nMy husband, Mark, wasn’t on board. \"They’re needy. They shed. They stink.\" But eventually, he caved.\r\n... |
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "I Took a Babysitting Gig. The Parents Forgot to Warn Me About Their Son"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "I took the babysitting job because the pay was insane. Cash, upfront. The Craigslist ad specified three rules:\r\n1. Do not enter the attic.\r\n2. At 8:30 ... |
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