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Ever since childhood, a dark figure no one else can see has been following you around, whispering in your ear. Today you see it lying a few feet away, screaming and asking you to run.

Thriller and Suspense

You've lived an average life up until today, your 20th birthday. You just found out your dad is the runaway son of a doting criminal warlord, and your mom is the daughter of an equally doting secret agent. Both family businesses are looking to make you the next heir.

Thriller and Suspense

Cupid offers to shoot an arrow into the person you love. He warns you that if the person already has a pre-existing affection towards you, it will disappear when the arrow strikes.

Romance

You meet your doppleganger of the opposite sex and find you are strangely attracted to each other.

Romance

Write a romantic comedy. Difficulty: both lovers are emotionally mature and have excellent communication skills.

Romance

In the future, romantic attraction is literal: each person is fitted with an electromagnetic bracelet which, they claim, will pull you to your soulmate. It's the day they turn the magnets on, and you're waiting.

Romance

You're a serial killer who murders anyone you see hitchhiking up your mountain. One day, you pick up a hitchhiker who kills anyone who picks them up.

Mystery

You are legally allowed to commit murder once, but you must fill out the proper paperwork and your proposed victim will be notified of your intentions.

Mystery

You hire two private investigators to investigate each other. One month later both come to you to present their findings.

Mystery

20 years after your daughter was abducted a detective finds you to reopen the case. The detective turns out to be your daughter.

Mystery

You are the world's greatest detective. With your near superhuman intellect, you have never failed to solve a case before. One day, you finally meet your match: a criminal so unbelievably stupid that you cannot possibly comprehend and predict what he's going to do next.

Mystery

A genius serial killer has been killing successfully for a decade. His only weakness is that he can never, ever lie. He finally gets caught and is facing trial for all murders in court. Yet, he walks, acquitted of all charges.

Mystery

New Year's Eve 2019. Feeling that nothing is out of place and everything is going perfectly, midnight arrives, and you celebrate the start of 2021.

Holiday

You wake up on Christmas morning and go downstairs, full of excitement. There, you see Jesus stealing your presents. "It's my birthday, not yours!" he hisses before fleeing with your gifts.

Holiday

Every year around Christmas, Satan accidentally gets thousands of letters from children writing to Santa. This year, however, he gets a letter that makes him sit up and take notice.

Christmas

It's the coldest Christmas Eve in history, and a poor family is out of coal for the furnace. The only child in the family has 24 hours to get on the naughty list.

Christmas

Every year, a small town has a holiday called "Burrowsday" where all the residents hunker down in communal tunnels for an entire day and night. You wake up on Burrowsday in the middle of the town, a head wound, and a note reading "good luck".

Holiday

A mother and daughter sit silently at a table, the tension thick enough to cut with a knife.

Sad

Did that painting just wink at me?

Fantasy

You work as a host at a restaurant when someone comes in and says they have a reservation. You look it up to find that the reservation was booked 40 years ago.

Horror

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