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20 Best Science Fiction Short Story Ideas
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In the closet of your new home is a portal through space and time. You accidentally travel to Mars.
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.
You're driving down a lonely road when you see a machine-looking object jet across the night sky.
After the crash, he vanished. Some say he moved to a compound in Africa, some say he went off the grid. But the Silicon Valley genius who engineered the greatest stockmarket disaster in history is hiding in plain sight
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