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It was unusual for a flower shop to trade in favors instead of coins, but for truly special occasions, it was worth incurring the debt.

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Decapitations just didn't have the staying power they used to.

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Your android companion might have been less buggy if you had enabled automatic updates, but you weren't going to take the risk of your best friend's personality being reset to factory standard.

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The advent of spring brought ambulatory building watchers to the coast every year, as crowds assembled on docks and shorelines hoping to catch a glimpse of the elusive Eastern Screwpile Lighthouse.

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You had collected several lifetime bans over the years, but as you were delighted to discover, none of those bans applied now that you were a ghost.

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The law of causality couldn't be broken, but it could be bent by those willing to pay the substantial fines.

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Your best theory was that you had stumbled into a fictional universe; it was the only way to explain how many of your friends worked food service or retail jobs, but could afford to rent loft apartments without roommates.

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The planet had transitioned to 100% renewable energy years ago, but unfortunately someone had forgotten to pay the subscription.

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Being far-sighted was usually beneficial, even though you only got small glimpses of the future (enough to know when you would need an umbrella or when the bus would be late); the only real problem was when you forgot your glasses, and spent the day disorientingly out of sync.

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Ever since a being of endless hunger had taken up residence in the dumpster behind the Denny's, closing shifts had gotten kind of weird.

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The strangest inheritance you had ever received was a fat, one-eyed cat who was, as far as you could determine, completely immortal.

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Dawn arrived three hours late, which quite annoyed the roosters.

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You had never had the kind of family connections or innate magical potential needed to be a student at the boarding school you now worked for, but given the high octane drama you saw while clearing tables in the dining hall every day, that might have been for the best.

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With a sinking heart, you realize that the elaborate maze full of lethal traps and hazardous natural features you and your team have been clawing your way through for so long you've forgotten the taste of fresh air and the feel of sunlight might not even have a certificate of completion at the center.

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You weren't precisely running from your own monstrous creation, but you did just happen to depart for an extended overseas vacation a few seconds after the restraints on the laboratory table broke.

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The sanitation worker strike was disruptive even before the Old Ones started emerging from shower drains.

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Giving your heart away wasn't something to do lightly; a returned heart didn't always fit the same chest that had once housed it, especially if new occupants had taken residence during the heart's absence.