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All Hallows' Eve
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Major downsizing meant this was the last day of your 30-year career as a mailman/mailwoman.

Dramatic

It's your first day in a new city where you don't speak the language.

Dramatic

It was so silent they not only heard it, but felt it.

Dramatic

It was a hell of a way to die.

Dramatic

It was a regular Saturday night at the speakeasy, until...

Dramatic

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.

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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

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