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Come Rain or Shine
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Each morning for 25 years, you and one other person waited at the same bus stop for work. This was the first time they weren't there.

Dramatic

Big Brother is real. And it's you.

Dramatic

As they rode away from their old life, they knew they'd never look back.

Dramatic

A writer is fighting with writer's block. They reminisce about the last time in their life they felt inspired.

Dramatic

A winter night in the city.

Dramatic

A group of travelers are exploring a deep, dark, remote cave when they find a computer and a lunchbox.

Dramatic

A double agent is assigned by both of the countries they work for to capture their alias.

Dramatic

I'd like to buy a plane ticket to your furthest destination today, you told the airline employee.

Dramatic

Had I known I was going to have guests at 4am, I would've tidied up.

Dramatic

Forget Ferris Bueller, you were detemined to make this the best day off. Ever.

Comedy

You're in a waiting room at a clinic that promises to cure writer's block.

Comedy

You'd never had a bus ride quite like that.

Comedy

You were ready to write the worst Amazon review ever.

Comedy

You have a writer's block breakthrough at the worst possible moment.

Comedy

You had the greenest grass around. No one's could be greener. Right...?

Comedy

You decide to buy a big school bus and to travel your country. You post an ad asking if anyone would like to join you. You're surprised by the number of people who show up.

Comedy

When an elderly person went to their local mall, they had no idea they'd wind up saving the world.

Comedy

That night, the action backstage was even more dramatic than the story unfolding onstage.

Comedy

Make the absurd absolutely and completely normal.

Comedy

It was the kind of Friday that gave new meaning to the phrase TGIF.

Comedy

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