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20 Best Science Fiction Short Story Ideas
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You volunteer to be the first human to test time travel, only going an hour forward in time. But when you leave the travel pod, all other humans are gone.
She was dying. She was your mother. And you remember the day your engineers first turned her on...
You wish upon what looks like a star but is actually a satellite. Your wish has been recorded, catalogued, and an agent is now assigned the task of granting your wish.
A team of scientists have successfully teleported an apple. It reappears with a bite taken out of it.
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