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Write a story that includes a character hearing their fate by a fortune teller.

Fantasy and Science Fiction

You lived a quiet life without surprise or disruption. Until today.

Comedy

As a joke, you put on a tinfoil hat. Suddenly your mind goes completely silent.

Fantasy and Science Fiction

Silence is now literally golden. For every day of total silence a person completes, they receive a piece of gold.

Fantasy and Science Fiction

You'd been saving to buy a cottage for the last ten years. Today was your first day there, and you were enjoying the peace and quiet you'd earned while reflecting on the last ten years.

Fantasy and Science Fiction

You live in a busy and bustling city, where the sound of traffic is constant. One morning you wake up to complete silence.

Fantasy and Science Fiction

A new candy had been invented that allowed the person who ate it to relive any memory they wanted. There was a lineup outside the shop.

Fantasy and Science Fiction

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