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"role": "user",
"content": "I'm Brandon Schwab, A \"Real Estate Agent\" Specializing in the Sale of \"Interesting\" Properties"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Interesting properties are a specialization in real estate not many agents are interested in exploring. When no other agent can ... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "I either going to break up with my girlfriend or marry her. I'm going to decide at the end of the Fair."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "After eating our fill of Deep-Fried Ranch, Lacey and I wandered the Minnesota State Fair looking for our next attraction.\r... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "I found a strange lantern at the edge of the woods."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "It was an ugly little thing, rusted and bent, the glass cloudy with grime. It looked like it had been there for years, forgotten under the roots of a fallen tree. But when I p... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "On Sundays, I can only consume food of one colour."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Yes, you read that right.\r\nWhen I was 10 years old, my mother drilled it into me that on Sundays, we can only consume food that is one colour. Otherwise something unspeakably... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "The Mental Gymnastics of the Serial Killer's Mother"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Yes, officer. I’m Ricky’s mother. Is my boy alright?\r\nOh no! What the hell did Ricky do now?\r\nArrested? On what charges?\r\nWho did he kill now?\r\nThat’s not possible! My... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "The Stone Of Saint-Bastille"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "The Stone of Saint-Bastille\r\nIt was a remote village in the Jura mountains of France, a place forgotten by time. Saint-Bastille was the name given to this speck of a settlement, barely a smudge on ... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "I have been seeing dreams of a boy."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "He's what you'd consider a modern replica of a Renaissance cherub. Spring-like golden-brown hair, squishy red cheeks, a smile that would melt your heart. Even though he is a fragment of my dr... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "The kill squad entered the rat-infested village under cover of darkness. Their orders were simple: burn everything that can’t be shot."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "The sodden rainforest was aflame.\r\nIt was too wet for anything to catch without a flamethr... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "I am alive because of my little brother"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "I am 42 years old, and every single day I wake up, I owe it to my little brother. We grew up in a small town in India. When I was fifteen, my best friend was Guru. He was my partner in cr... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Cattle of Helios"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "It took me several minutes to notice something was wrong, and might have taken longer with a different cooking process. Pan-fried steak cooks quickly and, to get it just right, you have to pay close attention. ... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "A Drop of Honey"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "A drop of honey, a cup of blood,\r\nyou need to enter the witching wood.\r\nShe remembered the rhyme, as old as the dry trees aching for sky, but not her name. Branches cracked under her bare feet as she walked ... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "I have been walking on the face of the planet for longer than you can imagine."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "I am cursed, forced to roam around on earth until considered fit to be redeemed with a better fate.\r\nI am a demon, my father is one, and so is my ... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "My husband’s painkiller addiction became the end of him."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "It started with an accident.\r\nSome driver thought it was a good idea to merge on the highway while they were wasted, and we almost died.\r\nI remember the shock and con... |
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Recovering from the mixed hangover of alcohol and regrets of last night, I half-heartedly called him."
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{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "He constantly provided me with opportunities to be dependent on him. He always laughed it off whenever I said this, but I kne... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "The ghost train of Indonesia"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "I lived in Indonesia for a few years on a project. Once, I challenged my local friends to share their creepiest urban legends. Among those shared stories, this is the one that still sends shivers do... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "I’m buying back my childhood home. There’s a lot of bad memories still living in there."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "The realtor put out the lit cigarette on his eye.\r\nNoticing I was watching, he smirked even wider.\r\n“Don’t worry. Glass eye.”\r\nI nodd... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "I'm one of your reflections. Can y'all just stop staring at us?"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Fine, I messed up, but it was partly the girl’s fault for making a dumb-ass face, wasn’t it? She was practicing a smile, and I was following along, when out of now... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "The Garden of Eternal Night"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Matthew woke up in a world that felt like paradise, golden fields, vibrant flowers, and skies painted with hues he'd never seen before. It was too perfect to be true. Then, he noticed a strange plaqu... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Portrait of My Ancestor"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "My family was originally from London, and one of our ancestors was a man named Peter Brooke. According to our research, Peter was basically the British Version of Leonardo Da Vinci, he was well known for... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "All the Reflections of Me"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "I moved into my new house about 3 weeks ago. Though its been a huge change from my apartment in the city, I truly enjoy living a quiet life on the farm. One of the things I found the most fascinating a... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "The Evolution of War with the Zombies"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "I turn my chair and open the curtain in my parliament office. Right from my office window on the 4th floor, I can see a clear view of the war happening on the ground—a war between humans an... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "It was the last night of my vacation and I decided that i wanted to see how the french did parties."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "The alcohol was good, however the girls were bland. I had drunkenly stumbled away from the party, my fogged mind becoming unint... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "The Foreboding Sound of Chewing with Your Mouth Open"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "“I’m not trying to tell you how to do your job,” said the homicide detective, “but I think we both know the answer here.”\r\nWe stood over my latest autopsy. The detective wa... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Who would have thought that the love of my life, my husband of 8 years, would cheat on me?"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "I wanted to get away from him, away from the city. A few decisions, a new job, and a super exhaustive move later, I found myself in the ... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "I’m a facilitator for my local Narcotics Anonymous. I have a unique way of helping my fellow addicts."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "“Before we begin,” I said, “we have someone who’d like to introduce themselves.”\r\nThe young woman glanced nervously up at m... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "In A Sea Of Dead Stars We're The Last To Remain"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Nobody could've guessed that this would've happened. Not even science itself could explain what went down. When we started our new chapter of humanity after colonizing our entire ... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "I'm going to prison for killing a man who teleported in front of my car."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "I don’t know how to explain what happened, and honestly, I’ve stopped trying. All I know is that one second, I was driving home after a late shift, and th... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "“No further?” the biology student asked, readjusting her head scarf as a shower of sand entered her mouth."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Squinting, both guides shook their heads emphatically.\r\n“Take cover, Miss Poppy!” the guides shouted back, gesturing a... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "I was kidnapped to be the wife of an imaginary husband."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Note to self: Don't talk to strangers on a Subway platform at midnight.\r\n“Would you either spend time with your pets, swim in the ocean, or sleep through your alarm?” th... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "I lost my husband because of 4 words 'Mama'..."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "The baby cam footage played on a loop in my mind as I drove home, hands gripping the steering wheel. My daughter, Simmy, had called the nanny Mama. That wasn’t a slip. It was delib... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "“Care for a game of chess, darling?”"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "I sigh. Charles always proposed a chess game before conversations that might lead to a fight, to put us in an analytical mindset instead of an emotional one.\r\nAfter a few turns he asked “S... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "There’s a stairway that leads to the end of all common sense."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "The door to the stairway followed you your whole life.\r\nNobody else could see it. It was meant solely for you.\r\nAnd today you’re finally going in.\r\nYou wrote a... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "A project of my own"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "After working a few weeks in the laboratory I heard rumors about an unknown and volatile liquid. Whenever I could I snuck in to the storage area to experiment on it. To my luck, I somehow managed to solidify... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "The Reckoning of the Oligarchs"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "My screen is cracked. I don't mind because this doesn't hurt me. Nothing hurts me, for I cannot feel pain. It doesn't hinder my functioning -- the closest I get to being hurt. My sensory input isn... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Anne of Always"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Shattering glass startled Anne awake. The red numbers on the ancient alarm clock said 3:24 am. Anne didn’t bother looking at it. It’s always 3:24 am. She reached for the nightstand and grabbed her husband’s Glock... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "My husband cheated on me after 5 years of being happily married.."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "I sat at the bar, staring blankly at the glass of wine before me. My fingers trembled as I clutched the stem, my mind replaying the gut-wrenching revelation: my ... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "New Hires! Please Follow The Guidelines Of Icarus Points Hotel And Spa Getaway"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Before me, a crumpled piece of paper. It had been a few weeks since I started at this hellscape. While looking through the drawers for a spare key, ... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Elegy of Shadows"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "“Hello, Lena. Are you willing to play a song no one has heard before?”\r\n“Where did you find such a thing?”\r\n“I was perusing an antique shop and found a songbook with the same last name as my own. ‘The Elegy... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "The Curse of Saint Nick"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Nicholas remembered when he used to be human.\r\nBack in the days of old, when he and his wife, Meredith, would stand around the fire and cook roast, making love far into the night.\r\nHe had been a chur... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "I’m one of Santa’s elves. I found something about my kind that changed everything."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "I wanted a child.\r\nAll elves were sterilized as soon as they were regurgitated from Mrs. Clause.\r\nI remember one of my coworkers, Varitan, v... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Creaking of the forest"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "They get to the cabin, and all the food is eaten by rats. The men put down their walking sticks they had found on the trail. Some of them cry. Most of them find a spot to sit down.\r\nThe mission that the... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Today, we erased the memory of Clara. This is what we found."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "PROCEDURE START\r\nREWIND\r\nPLAY\r\nApril 27th, 2pm\r\nThe two doctors take notes as I recount the events I want to erase. They say it’s a simple procedure, nothing ... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "The Arrest Of Albert Fleck"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Albert Fleck was a Serial Child Murderer, a monster who claimed the lives of innocent kids.\r\nFleck’s Farm was located at the outskirts of the town. Posing himself as an ordinary farmer, He approache... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "I'm Getting Really Tired Of Being Called A Karen"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "I swear, if somebody calls me Karen again, I'm gonna lose my shit.\r\nThat term frustrates me to no end. It's degrading – insulting – straight up fucking rude – and only seems to... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Where I live, we have a very unorthodox way of dealing with domestic abuse."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "The town I live in is perfect.\r\nEveryone’s smile never falters. Everyone’s friends with everyone here. It’s almost like a picture book you show babie... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Y2K happened, is still happening, and is the defining event of the universe"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "December 31, 1999\r\nThe increasingly computerized world is anxious over the so-called “Year 2000 Problem” (Y2K), a data storage glitch feared to cause... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Humanity Just Got Its Cosmic Performance Evaluation. Turns Out We’re The Slackers Of The Universe."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Steve’s morning had been normal. Right up until the universe demanded a meeting. One second, he was debating if oat milk was wor... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "None of us can leave this classroom until we have eliminated our teacher."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "There had to be… more outside this classroom.\r\nSometimes I'm lucky to catch my reflection in the window.\r\nBut I am a shadow with no face.\r\nI am mis... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Today I learned that my dad spent the last thirteen years of his life working as a hippopotamus in a Chinese zoo"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "I barely remember my dad. I was just a kid when he disappeared. Mom always said he'd abandoned us, but today I fou... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "The Reading of Grandma Diya's Last Will and Testatment"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "You sit in the lawyer's office awating Grandma Diya's will to be read. To your left is your mother, next to your father, and your older sister, the oldest grandchild. Your ... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "“Look at that one…” Kath’s boyfriend purred, reverse pinching an image of Neil Druckmann’s face to zoom in on his beard. “It’s glorious.”"
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Kath rolled her eyes. “You need to stop obsessing over this.”\r\n“It’s just frustrating, ... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "The Invention of Hunger"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "I know this may sound laughable, but sometimes being richer than God is challenging. Emotionally, I mean.\r\nBeing incalculably wealthy since the day you were born can make life…flavorless. I’ve indulged... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "I made the mistake of rejecting a boy when I was thirteen. Now, all of my partners are cursed to die."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Jasper and I were bound at the hip.\r\nSoulmates.\r\nHe was kind of a weird kid, but I liked that about him.\r\nHis mother, h... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "I’ve been suspicious of Grandma ever since the story she told me."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "“Sit back, make yourself comfy and cozy up underneath the blankets.”\r\nI nestled my head into the pillow as Grandma spoke these instructions. The ones prefacing... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "The Phrase \"Shaken not Hurt\" Pleases Me Because of Its Similarity to the Famous Phrase from the James Bond Movies"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "I looked out of the corner of my eye to see how Bettie managed her cup of tea, the honey, the teabag, the teasp... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Courtesy of the chef."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "I enjoyed having the occasional junk food, much like most others. Although, for some reason god had cursed me to hear the noises of whatever animal I have eaten. I had grown accustomed to hearing the mood ... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Has anyone here ever heard of ‘Cellular Instability Disorder’?"
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Hey guys, ‘Ted’ here, and we're about to meet a child with one of the rarest disabilities ever.\r\nHere we are at a location that I’ll leave unnamed for obvious rea... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Even Dying Can't Cure Grandma Of Her Cellphone Addiction."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Grandma Clara treated her cellphone like a sacred relic. ‘My lifeline to reality!’ she’d say. Though her reality consisted mostly of spamming emojis to her bridge club a... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "The Shape of Silence"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "The house was too quiet. Sarah noticed it every morning. Liam, her son, barely spoke anymore.\r\nBefore the accident, Liam was full of energy. He loved asking questions and telling stories. Now, he just sat... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "The Tragedy of Aunt Nina"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Aunt Nina recently lost her own son, my cousin, Lincoln, after his body was found lying in the bottom of the stairs.\r\nThat was the final straw for her, my dad said, this place was nothing but a curse ... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "I have matured so much, and instead of just waiting for my boyfriend to cheat, I have taken control."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Look at her. Just fucking look at her, chatting to my beloved Sean as if I’m invisible, standing here right next to him, baggi... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "My Dad Won't Let Me Round the Corner of our Neighborhood"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "I'm 17 years old damn it, I've never kissed a girl, never got to go to school, never had any friends. I've been stuck in this big house with just my father and mother all... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "I used to be one of the bullies. Now, I’m a hero."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Madeleine Parry was at the very least autistic.\r\nThe way she looked and walked and talked spelled how she should have gone to a special school.\r\nShe acted like a child. And ... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "A Morsel Of Bitterness"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Corporal Isaac Blake buried the dead because no one else would. The stench of rotting flesh clung to the camp like a wet sheet. The buzzing of flies drowned out the groans of the sick and dying. Yet, Isaa... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "The 12 Days of Christmas - A Diary"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Monday - The guy I've been seeing came by today and planted a pear tree in my yard, and gave me a partridge for Christmas. Weird gift but the tree looks nice and the bird can eat the pears.\r\... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Out of Focus"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "\"Sarah?\"\r\nThe first word out of my mouth is followed by an excruciating emptiness as I regain consciousness. The light in my eyes obscures the figures surrounding me, various medical devices in hand. I want to ... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "I underwent an experimental procedure. Now I can’t remember the birth of my children."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "When I saw that my eyes looked like a goat’s, I knew I was fucked.\r\nWhen I went to the doctor my pupils already duplicated. Eyetosis, he de... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "I’m Honestly Getting Tired of This Sub"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "I'm not even joking here. I genuinely can't stand this sub anymore.\r\nI've been dealing with this annoying sub for about two months now, and my patience has been stretched repeatedly to t... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "I learned I'm going to be a Dad today. This is the happiest day of my life."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "When my wife told me she was pregnant with a boy, I knew exactly what name I was gonna pick. Jeremiah. It was my grandfather’s name, and it was a littl... |
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "He Makes the Back of My Neck Itch."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "The date went great! We met at a local restaurant. Kevin was polite to the waiters and engaged in appropriate small-talk. I ordered… something I enjoyed, and he paid for it. I’m following Kevi... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "I was the head investigator of the BFF Murders. We never caught who killed them."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "They only went missing for about a day before we found them.\r\nSome warehouse in the slums. A homeless guy stumbled in, found… what was left of t... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Tinder date made a last minute, suspicious change of plans"
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "“Sorry about the short notice,” she said, letting him in the front door.\r\n“Don’t worry about it.”\r\n“My car wouldn’t start.”\r\nThey entered the living room, and she... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "The Isolation of Blackwood Sanitarium"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Dr. Emma Taylor stepped out of the rusty elevator and into the musty hallway of Blackwood Sanitarium's abandoned wing. Her footsteps echoed off the peeling walls as she approached room 314,... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "The Death Of A Forest Nymph Lead To Our Downfall"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "It started a year ago when the people caught news of it. Woodland creatures had been spotted, and their existence quickly sparked investigations. Deforestation has been bad latel... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Thousands of flags appear out of nowhere"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Just a weird experience:\r\nMy friend lived next to a local college campus that he attended and late in the night, like 1am-3am we'd often just walk around the campus just for something ... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "The Latest Episode Of \"Sasquatch: Secrets Exposed\" Is A Killer."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "The rain-soaked forest loomed like a cathedral. Each step deeper into the Pacific Northwest wilderness felt heavier, as if the woods themselves were closing in. ... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "The difference between a weed and a vine is crucial when one of them could end in a bloody murder."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Since my 7th birthday, I’ve known something was off.\r\nThe question was just what it was.\r\n”Sit up. It’s your turn to auditio... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "The echo.of shadows"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "The Johnson family home stood at the edge of the woods, isolated and serene, until the night Sarah began to change. At first, it was small things: her voice carrying an odd echo, her laughter lingering too l... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "The United States of Chronometry"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "“How much for the oranges?”\r\n“168s/lb.”\r\nChris paid—feeling the lifespan flow out of him—went home and had his mom pay him back the time from her own account.\r\n//\r\nWelcome to the United ... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Fears of a Woman Jogger"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Copy to BlackBox\r\nHer feet gingerly meet the pavement as her slender frame pushes up the hill. A bulky sweater is a subtle attempt to hide how very little of her is underneath. Tall as she is, she can'... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "If you’re driving on a road in the middle of nowhere, for the love of God, get off your phone."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "It was a long, boring road from my place to the cabin I had rented in the hopes to spend a weekend in blissful solitude, with only t... |
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "The wanderer scrambled over the rocks with excitement to read the first sign of human presence he’d seen since he’d escaped."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "My name is Camila Martinez. The day of my death was probably a Tusday. It felt like one. Most of us ha... |
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"content": "Pages 173-6 from the unpublished memoir of Ongar Ling, a general of the intergalactic army now deceased"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "“I’ve a bone to pick with you,” she said.\r\nSo we floated tentacle-in-tentacle to one of the many illicit shops of human r... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "It was a year ago today that a sycophant in Tribeca gave me the idea of a lifetime"
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "“You’re experiencing a rough patch…” he’d smiled sympathetically.\r\nHe wasn’t wrong. Skint, I’d been living on a diet of bread and vodka for ab... |
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"content": "I Finally Learnt the True Cost of My Success, Thanks to Geoff"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "The howls penetrated the walls of our mansion.\r\nI paused, my brush saturated with Phthalo Blue hovering over the Van Goghian landscape before me. The howls had bee... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "An alien ship shows up, and out of all people, they’re asking for ME?!"
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "The beer arrives, perfectly chilled. Every day, after work, I head to the bar, order two beers and a sandwich. Living alone without family, this is all I ha... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "I wish my husband would stop pretending I’m invisible, I’m sick of it."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Let me start by saying I love my husband Brandon very much. We started dating in high school and I’ve never so much as looked at anybody else. He’s my best ... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "“Reflections of the Wolf”"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "The family I lived with wasn’t pleasant. They were abusive, though occasionally kind. In our house, there was a peculiar mirror. When my family looked into it, they saw their reflections. But when I lo... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Scream and Suffer"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "The couch looked much more appealing than usual.\r\nRoofing had been a slog due to the heat and those god awful bugs that were everywhere. I couldn’t have felt more tired. Just as I was about to flop down grat... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Coffee and Croissants"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "I scuttle across the pedestrian crossing, breath sharp, my phone clenched with tight knuckles. A horn pierces the air, car skidding in the rain. A gaggle of teenage girls squawk frantically as I pass.\r\nI... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "On And On And On And..."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "When you live in a small town, you’re within one or two degrees of knowin’ everybody. You can’t fart in the woodshed without someone catchin’ a whiff. That bein’ said, none of us really noticed anything ... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Art And Universal Glitches"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Making art is hard.\r\nFirst of all , you have to form a good concept . Something that your audience is captivated by , or at the very least , interested in.\r\nThen , you have to paint that painting ... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Static and Silence"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "It always started with a drink.\r\nThen two.\r\nThen the teeth-gritting high of fists meeting faces and the world going quiet except for the sounds I made.\r\nPeople were scared of me.\r\nThat was the goal.\r... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "I've been sleeping longer and longer."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "It feels impossible to get out of bed. I'm not tied down or injured, not that I can tell. I've even dreamed I stood up, that I made myself my first meal in months. I wake up staring at the ... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Noah and me"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "It’s 8 pm on a Saturday. I’m having dinner with my son, Noah, and it’s a normal evening. Transformers 2 is on TV, and there is meatloaf on the table. My son is floating three feet above his chair, his neck twisted a... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Blink, and She's Gone"
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "It only looked like my mother.\r\nThat much is certain, even after all this time. I can still tell them apart. None of the medication has helped. The memories still burn my mind’s eye. I still see…\r\n… ha... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "My friends and I severed ourselves."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "When Mom divorced Dad, she had an orange light on her palm.\r\nOrange means severed.\r\nMeaning… you knew a person\r\nBut through a popular “Severing” procedure, you chose to forget them.\r\n... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Tobacco and flowers"
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Yesterday I went to the old house to retrieve some books. I haven't been there in two weeks.\r\nWhen I entered the living room, my father was sitting on his favorite armchair, reading a newspaper while smoki... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "The Old Man and the Stars"
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "“Know what, kid? I piloted one of those. Second Battle of Saturn. Flew sortees out of Titan,” said the old man.\r\n“Really?” said the kid.\r\nThey were in the Museum of Space History, standing before a... |
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"role": "user",
"content": "A Cruel and Final Heaven"
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "I remember being born. The doctors say that's impossible, but I remember: my mother's face, tired, swollen and with tears running down her cheeks.\r\nAs an infant I would lie on her naked chest and see ... |
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