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Hi, friends

Just because everyone is going through this big thing right now, and experiencing it at varying degrees, doesn’t make your individual worries, concerns, and reactions to the news unimportant or invalid by comparison. You matter. ❤︎

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331.

A dystopian or post-apocalyptic compound that uses the infrastructure left behind — a mall, a school, a golf course, etc. A whole city within the walls of this one place that’s no longer used for its original purpose.

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330.

A virtual reality MMO with everything you’ve ever complained about the games you play not having. Really, it’s the perfect game, great for getting your mind off your life. There is a very small chance you’ll be stuck in the game forever — but considering how things are going IRL, you’re willing to take that chance.

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329.

You’re not a religious person. Never been into that, in fact. So you have no reason to open the Bible in your hotel room except curiosity, really. But when you open the book, it’s not what’s written on the pages that catches your attention — it’s the note tucked inside that seems to have been written for you.

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328.

You’re sitting next to someone who looks a lot like you on an airplane. Are you...long-lost twins? Two people who happen to look a lot alike? Or is something supernatural going on? How does that conversation go?

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327.

Your life is a lot easier than everyone else’s — and when you realize just how much easier, you’re perplexed by how no one else seems to care. I mean, you’ve got a guy who looks nothing like you going in to take your exams for you. You do five minutes of exercise and it’s as if you’ve done a week’s worth. You’ve never been sick in your life, not even a cold. What gives, why did it take you so long to realize, and why does no one else seem to notice what’s going on?

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326.

“You’re going to be fine.”

You turn to the source of the voice, a man you don’t recognize. “Excuse me?”

He smiles and shows you what he’s holding. “You’re going to be fine. As long as you don’t tell anyone.”

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325.

The worst possible sequence of posts your main character could wake up to on their Facebook news feed.

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324.

Using a random phrase generator, write the synopsis of an award-winning Broadway musical with that title (and maybe a few song titles).

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323.

A wholesome acrostic poem, where the word or phrase used to format it is something less wholesome.

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322.

Write a pretentious, overwritten, rave review for a movie generally seen as low-brow (or a children’s movie).

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321.

Describe your favorite meal and what makes it so special to you, specifically. Even if you think others can’t truly understand your feelings because this meal is rooted in a personal experience, or it’s a unique food that not many people have had — write this for yourself.

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320.

A secret, taboo relationship ... that ends when one of the parties dies, leaving the other forced to deal with their grief alone.

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319.

You get all your to-do lists a week in advance — that is, a week before you even know these things will be on your to-do list. This comes in handy sometimes, like when “take car into the shop” appeared, and you were able to head off a massive repair by finding the problem with your car early. But sometimes, things like “buy sympathy card” or “book rental car for tomorrow” appear, and while you’ll do them all the same, you won’t know the reasons behind them until the time comes.

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318.

“I know.”

You don’t pay her comment much mind — how much could she really know? — until she holds out a piece of paper with, well, everything on it. She knows.

You sigh. “Congratulations. Now are you going to help me, or what?”

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317.

You only see each other for a few moments each day as you pass each other in the long hallway — his shift ends just as yours begins, with no overlap except that walk — but you’ve become ever more sophisticated in how you communicate, catching each other’s glances as soon as you find each other in the hallway and mouthing words to one another, passing notes, making hand gestures, all of it. Just because you work different shifts and reside in different living quarters doesn’t mean you can’t be friends. So when he passes you a note one day, probably for the hundredth time, you’re not fazed...until later that night, when you open it and read it.

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316.

Everything happens at night. Everyone goes to school and work at night, goes grocery shopping at night, runs errands at night. Daytime is when the world goes still, silent, empty, when everyone sleeps. Everyone, that is, except the cameras that can alert the authorities if anyone tries to escape and enjoy the daylight.