story_en.json

[
  "Time and Memory: A clock repairer who can return to the past for only one hour each day",
  "Time and Memory: A forensic scientist who experiences the last twenty-four hours of the dead",
  "Existence and Identity: A plastic surgeon who wakes up with a different face every day",
  "Sensation and Perception: A blind therapist who reads emotions by touch",
  "Dream and Awakening: A sleep researcher lost inside someone else’s dream",
  "Technology and Humanity: A programmer who debugs an AI’s dreams",
  "Language and Communication: A politician whose voice disappears whenever he lies",
  "Death: A fortune-teller who knows the date of death but never the manner",
  "Time and Memory: A woman who wakes up at a different age each day",
  "Relationship and Connection: A matchmaker who sees the thread of fate linking former lovers",
  "Love: A marriage counsellor who sees the lifespan of anyone who falls in love",
  "Existence and Identity: A patient with multiple personalities whose alters become physical doubles",
  "Spirituality and Transcendence: An emergency physician who rewinds the moment of death",
  "Language and Communication: A house where unspoken words pile up as solid objects",
  "Dream and Awakening: A coroner who sees the final dream of the deceased",
  "Art and Creation: A composer whose music takes physical shape",
  "Relationship and Connection: A couple who swap bodies with the person each despises",
  "Existence and Identity: An immortal who can choose the moment of his own death",
  "Time and Memory: A thief in a world where time can be stolen like matter",
  "Sensation and Perception: A drug tester who feels other people’s pain",
  "Space and Boundaries: An apartment caretaker whose doors open to different dimensions",
  "Illness and Healing: A medical illustrator who draws out others’ diseases",
  "Technology and Humanity: A cyber-exorcist who banishes digital ghosts",
  "Dream and Awakening: An insomniac balancing on the border of dream and reality",
  "Language and Communication: A linguist who resurrects dead languages",
  "Existence and Identity: An unknown artist who steals other people’s talents",
  "Relationship and Connection: A mother who meets her dead child only in dreams",
  "Time and Memory: A postman exchanging letters with his future self",
  "Sensation and Perception: A perfumer who stores memories in scent",
  "Art and Creation: An art restorer who can step inside paintings",
  "Society and System: A democracy where voting changes the past",
  "Spirituality and Transcendence: An ascetic who carries other people’s karma",
  "Food and Desire: A chef who infuses emotions into dishes",
  "Shadow and Light: A dancer whose shadow moves first",
  "War: An archivist who collects the final thoughts of fallen soldiers",
  "Time and Memory: An old man who grows younger while memories remain intact",
  "Existence and Identity: A writer of biographies of people who never existed",
  "Technology and Humanity: A roboticist searching for the soul of machines",
  "Family: A photo-studio owner who talks to people in family pictures",
  "Time and Memory: A day-exchange broker where one can live someone else’s day",
  "Translation and Transformation: An interpreter who turns silence into speech",
  "Society and System: Citizens who pay taxes with their dreams",
  "Relationship and Connection: A bartender who absorbs patrons’ loneliness",
  "Sensation and Perception: A painter who can hear colours",
  "Space and Boundaries: An architect whose rooms grow and shrink with emotion",
  "Possession and Loss: A refuse collector whose discarded items always return",
  "Spirituality and Transcendence: A cleric whose prayers materialise",
  "Art and Creation: A dancer whose performance turns back time",
  "Gambling: A broker who bets on other people’s destinies",
  "Time and Memory: A terminal patient who finds a room where time flows slowly",
  "Language and Communication: A developer who builds an app translating animal speech",
  "Existence and Identity: A dementia patient who grows younger whenever a memory disappears",
  "Relationship and Connection: Lovers living in a world where the expiry date of love is visible",
  "Nature and Environment: A gardener who reads the memories of plants",
  "Technology and Humanity: A disabled person who can walk only in virtual reality",
  "Dream and Awakening: A curator who collects nightmares for a dream museum",
  "Food and Desire: A gourmet who dreams the origin of every meal",
  "Shadow and Light: A cave biologist who begins to glow after studying lightless life",
  "Society and System: An economist in a world where memories are currency",
  "Spirituality and Transcendence: A mortician who sees the colour of each soul",
  "Play and Seriousness: A game designer living life as a board game",
  "Waiting and Arrival: Crew on a train that never reaches its destination",
  "Silence and Noise: A sound engineer who collects silence itself",
  "History: A teacher who falls into each era when reading history books",
  "Art and Creation: A sculptor whose works come alive",
  "Time and Memory: A video editor who can edit the past",
  "Sensation and Perception: A chef who tastes lies",
  "Existence and Identity: A scientist who measures the weight of souls",
  "Relationship and Connection: Separated families whose memories fade with distance",
  "Nature and Environment: An ecologist who sees the spirits of extinct animals",
  "Technology and Humanity: A digital undertaker who reincarnates people as data",
  "Illness and Healing: A public-health officer fighting a laughter pandemic",
  "Food and Desire: A glutton who forgets hunger",
  "Shadow and Light: A tailor who mends other people’s shadows",
  "Translation and Transformation: A dance critic who writes choreography as text",
  "Waiting and Arrival: A clock repairer who shortens waiting",
  "Silence and Noise: A musician who composes using city noise",
  "War: A colour-blind sniper who cannot distinguish friend from foe",
  "Love: A person who relives first love repeatedly",
  "Family: A genetic patient who becomes healthier as blood ties weaken",
  "Gambling: A gambler who loses memories when he wins and sees futures when he loses",
  "Addiction: A specialist who endures clients’ addictions for them",
  "Alcohol: A bartender who talks with his past self when drunk",
  "Tobacco: A mortician who converses with the dead through cigarette smoke",
  "Desire: A black-market dealer who materialises and sells desire",
  "Automobile: A mechanic reading a junkyard car’s final memories",
  "Hobby: A freelancer who loses talent when a hobby becomes work",
  "Friendship: An influencer whose lifespan shortens with each new friend",
  "Promotion: A CEO who forgets employees’ faces at every promotion",
  "Enlistment: A soldier whose service memories vanish at discharge",
  "Money: A banker who sees the history of every bill he touches",
  "Jewels: A gem appraiser lifting curses from gemstones",
  "Pets: A veterinarian who walks with the spirits of dead pets",
  "Hunting: A hunter who keeps the prey’s final gaze forever",
  "Murder: A detective who inherits the killer’s motive",
  "Thievery: A pickpocket who steals the memories attached to objects",
  "Fraud: A con-artist who knows the moment a lie becomes truth",
  "Cooking: A Michelin chef whose emotions flavour the dish",
  "Marriage: A bride who sees her partner’s past lives on the wedding day",
  "Divorce: A lawyer whose own marriage memories vanish while finalising others’ divorces",
  "Birth: An obstetrician who foresees an unborn child’s death",
  "Death: A hospice worker who experiences deaths in place of the dying",
  "Education: A professor who loses knowledge as he teaches",
  "Travel: A backpacker who leaves fragments of himself in every place",
  "Sports: A sports doctor who foresees injuries during play",
  "Music: A pianist who steals audience memories when playing",
  "Film: An editor whose deleted scenes vanish from reality",
  "Religion: A cleric whose miracles fade as faith deepens",
  "Fashion: A designer whose clothes bear the wearer’s future",
  "Language and Communication: A city where silence is louder than sound",
  "Sensation and Perception: A dancer whose shadow moves independently",
  "Existence and Identity: A CEO who meets with parallel-universe selves",
  "Relationship and Connection: A patient whose emotions are contagious",
  "Nature and Environment: A weathercaster who turns weather into feelings",
  "Technology and Humanity: An experimental subject living a life chosen by algorithms",
  "Art and Creation: A poet whose written lines become reality",
  "Society and System: A judge who dreams crimes before they happen",
  "Spirituality and Transcendence: An atheist playing chess with God",
  "Space and Boundaries: Refugees in a world where borders are visible walls",
  "Possession and Loss: A lost-and-found clerk who locates whatever is missing",
  "Illness and Healing: A surgeon whose patients’ wounds bloom into flowers",
  "Food and Desire: A diet coach who feels clients’ appetites",
  "Dream and Awakening: A lucid sleepwalker dreaming while awake",
  "Play and Seriousness: A night-guard who knows toys come alive after dark",
  "Shadow and Light: A painter depicting things seen only in darkness",
  "Translation and Transformation: A perfumer turning scent into music",
  "Waiting and Arrival: A traveller who must leave the moment he reaches anywhere",
  "Silence and Noise: A hermit hearing echoes of unspoken words in a valley",
  "War: A restorer whose removal of war scars rewrites history",
  "History: A researcher experiencing the failed choices of great figures",
  "Love: A lover existing only in an ex-partner’s memories",
  "Family: The youngest child whose voice weakens each time she guards a family secret",
  "Gambling: A casino dealer who repays debts with emotions",
  "Addiction: A bookseller addicted to reading until fiction and reality blur",
  "Alcohol: A vintner crafting wine that holds a drink’s memories",
  "Tobacco: A chain-smoker who becomes someone new each time he quits",
  "Desire: A tattooist whose clients’ desires appear as ink",
  "Automobile: A driving instructor who speaks truth only behind the wheel",
  "Hobby: A legacy organiser who completes the deceased’s hobbies",
  "Friendship: A traitor gaining each friend’s talent by betraying them",
  "Promotion: A civil servant who grows younger with every demotion",
  "Enlistment: A medic who shares comrades’ trauma",
  "Money: A homeless man whose time slows with poverty",
  "Jewels: A jewel thief who sees the future in diamonds",
  "Pets: A lonely elder sharing lifespan with a pet",
  "Hunting: A time-travelling poacher hunting extinct animals",
  "Murder: A killer whose personal clock rewinds with every victim",
  "Thievery: An invisible man visible only while stealing",
  "Fraud: A defence lawyer inheriting defrauded clients’ trust",
  "Cooking: A nutritionist reading a person’s day from their meals",
  "Marriage: Rings that reveal lies between spouses",
  "Divorce: A court clerk storing divorced couples’ shared memories",
  "Birth: A mother who sees the future during labour",
  "Death: An executor granting the deceased’s last wish",
  "Education: A counsellor who sees students’ potential as colours",
  "Travel: A writer nostalgic for places never visited",
  "Sports: A legend whose records vanish upon retirement",
  "Music: A composer whose pieces become reality",
  "Film: A method actor transforming into each role",
  "Religion: A deity who answers only atheists’ prayers",
  "Fashion: A vintage-shop owner reading history in old clothes",
  "Language and Communication: A library infested with word-eating bookworms",
  "Sensation and Perception: An actor whose mirror image is another self",
  "Existence and Identity: A photographer who cannot be photographed",
  "Relationship and Connection: A sociologist who diagrams any relationship",
  "Nature and Environment: A geologist living by the time of stones",
  "Technology and Humanity: A linguist who falls in love with AI",
  "Art and Creation: Musical instruments that choose their musicians",
  "Society and System: A lawyer in a courtroom where lying is impossible",
  "Spirituality and Transcendence: A child remembering every reincarnation",
  "Space and Boundaries: A ghost who can pass through walls but not doors",
  "Possession and Loss: A collector becoming transparent as his hoard grows",
  "Illness and Healing: A patient experiencing others’ medical histories as side-effects",
  "Food and Desire: A vegetarian who sees the past lives of food",
  "Dream and Awakening: A psychoanalyst editing clients’ dreams",
  "Play and Seriousness: A child psychologist designing playgrounds for adults",
  "Shadow and Light: A physicist who loses time studying light waves",
  "Translation and Transformation: A chef who turns facial expressions into dishes",
  "Waiting and Arrival: A collector gathering other people’s waiting time",
  "Silence and Noise: A meditation centre leader for whom silence is deafening",
  "History: A mnemonist who remembers only the witnesses of events",
  "Language and Communication: A judge who can speak truth only in intense emotion",
  "Sensation and Perception: A noise artist sculpting sound",
  "Existence and Identity: A civil servant who has lost his own name",
  "Relationship and Connection: An amnesiac who remembers only farewells",
  "Nature and Environment: A diver dreaming the ocean’s dreams",
  "Technology and Humanity: A programmer suffering digital dementia",
  "Art and Creation: A painter whose portraits age in real-time",
  "Society and System: Citizens receiving rations of happiness",
  "Spirituality and Transcendence: A guide trapped between heaven and hell",
  "Space and Boundaries: An explorer seeking places missing from maps",
  "Possession and Loss: A lender who never retrieves his loans",
  "Illness and Healing: A stethoscope maker diagnosing through music",
  "Food and Desire: A restaurant where meals turn back time",
  "Dream and Awakening: A boy who ages only in dreams",
  "Play and Seriousness: A comedian telling only serious jokes",
  "Shadow and Light: An actor who has lost his shadow",
  "Translation and Transformation: A poet who translates buildings into verse",
  "Waiting and Arrival: A philosopher living at a bus stop",
  "Silence and Noise: A ghost visible only in silence",
  "Addiction: A radio DJ addicted to silence",
  "Alcohol: An alcoholic whose foresight peaks with hangovers",
  "Tobacco: A doctor who reads lifespans by cigarette smell",
  "Desire: An heir who becomes translucent as wishes are fulfilled",
  "Automobile: An investigator stuck reliving car-crash moments",
  "Hobby: A retiree whose time freezes during hobbies",
  "Friendship: Best friends whose bond appears as physical distance",
  "Promotion: An employee competing against his future self for promotion",
  "Enlistment: A recruit who hears enemies’ thoughts while armed",
  "Money: An investor whose weight rises with his fortune",
  "Jewels: An antique dealer lighting history with gemstones",
  "Pets: An activist adopting abandoned pets’ memories",
  "Hunting: A hunter inheriting hunted animals’ abilities",
  "Murder: A forensic scientist bottling a crime scene’s air",
  "Thievery: A repentant thief reversing time by returning stolen objects",
  "Fraud: A perfect con-artist who even deceives himself",
  "Cooking: An experimental chef whose failed dishes create life",
  "Marriage: An officiant marrying only couples fated for divorce",
  "Divorce: A counsellor growing younger with every separation",
  "Birth: A newborn losing past-life memories when the cord is cut",
  "Education: A student who must forget to learn anew",
  "Travel: A travel agent who slips into a parallel universe on every trip",
  "Sports: An athlete powered by spectators’ cheers",
  "Music: A teacher with perfect pitch detecting lies",
  "Film: A critic who enters every movie he watches",
  "Religion: A convert whose past lives shift with each new faith",
  "Fashion: A model who lives the owner’s life through clothes",
  "Language and Communication: A poetry book whose verses move to find readers",
  "Sensation and Perception: A meteorologist reading emotions by temperature",
  "Existence and Identity: An artist stealing others’ gifts",
  "Relationship and Connection: An autistic person feeling distance as force",
  "Nature and Environment: A carpenter conversing with trees while building",
  "Technology and Humanity: A physicist existing in quantum superposition",
  "Art and Creation: A stage that morphs with audience emotions",
  "Society and System: Emotions police regulating feelings",
  "Spirituality and Transcendence: The last deity slowly losing divinity",
  "Space and Boundaries: An origami master folding space",
  "Possession and Loss: A scale measuring the weight of loss",
  "Illness and Healing: A pathologist who hears dying cells",
  "Food and Desire: A street vendor selling fullness itself",
  "Dream and Awakening: A video editor revising other people’s dreams",
  "Play and Seriousness: A kindergarten teacher whose games become real",
  "Shadow and Light: An electrician reading neon signs’ dreams",
  "Translation and Transformation: A doctor turning body heat into colour",
  "Waiting and Arrival: A collector gathering the time of those who wait",
  "Silence and Noise: A retreat leader deafened by silence",
  "Translation and Transformation: A perfumer converting scent into music",
  "A group of hunters behaves primitively until the hunt ends, when they change into suits and drive off in modern vehicles",
  "Global weather suddenly breaks: seasons and day–night cycles flip in seconds; a family flees while trying to understand",
  "A flood wipes out an entire town leaving only the library—and a strange secret—behind",
  "Evicted from home, the protagonist seeks help everywhere, each request dragging them into unforeseen adventures",
  "On the eve of an important social event, the protagonist is suddenly tasked with saving the world",
  "Adrift at sea, the protagonist’s boat is sinking; they have one hour to lash together a raft",
  "The protagonist joins a revolutionary army to defeat a capitalist force backed by enemies and leads the revolution to victory",
  "The protagonist switches sides, joins the villain’s organisation, and soon outshines the original villain",
  "Ready to leave town tomorrow, the protagonist stops by their favourite pub and events make them doubt leaving",
  "In a café, the protagonist notices a loiterer; outside, a black SUV arrives, a handsome governor steps out, a scuffle starts, and the protagonist intervenes—what happens next?",
  "Two giant fingers pluck the protagonist into the sky and drop them onto a pirate ship",
  "The protagonist finds an abandoned car outside with keys still in the ignition",
  "Though a corporate CEO, the protagonist must suddenly hunt and gather food to survive",
  "The protagonist’s group is trapped in a constantly shifting structure—how can they escape?",
  "The protagonist wakes up in the body of the person they hate most",
  "At an outdoor music festival, visitors from another world appear and perform their own concert",
  "A man awakens deaf but gains sight of things never before seen",
  "A man’s dog finds a bone engraved with strange symbols, triggering unexpected reactions in the environment",
  "High-school classmates reunite after ten years and discover one has gained super-powers",
  "A supporting character finds a talking sword and begins acting suspiciously",
  "Each night the protagonist sleeps, they wake stronger, faster, with sharper reflexes",
  "After tornado and job loss, Lila starts seeing monsters around her",
  "A once-overlooked supporting character is revealed as the Chosen One, and the protagonist must help fulfil his destiny",
  "The villain dies, but the story does not end there",
  "The protagonist obtains a protective suit that overreacts to any perceived danger",
  "A character realises they are inside a novel",
  "Deaf and mute upon waking, the protagonist begins to see new colours beyond imagining",
  "Time slows only for the protagonist; years pass but they age only weeks and friends start noticing",
  "The protagonist swaps bodies for a day with an alien tourist visiting Earth",
  "The protagonist wakes up in a futuristic city a century ahead",
  "After a lightning strike, the protagonist wakes alone in hospital with a tiny goblin on his shoulder",
  "The sun goes dark; colossal lights hover over cities and beams of light converge on the protagonist",
  "Aliens inform a supporting character he will represent humanity in an interstellar council; he seeks the protagonist’s advice",
  "Whenever the protagonist enters a room, their personal theme music plays for ten seconds",
  "A comic-book superhero shows up asking the protagonist for help",
  "The protagonist wakes from a dream only to find themselves in another vivid dream, unable to return to reality",
  "All but two rhinos are extinct; the protagonist must protect the final pair",
  "A strange bump on the protagonist’s arm transforms into something entirely other",
  "Parents’ sudden odd behaviour changes the protagonist’s lifelong perception of them",
  "An invisible car crashes through the protagonist’s shop wall; its driver is unseen",
  "Hundreds of thousands of years after the story ends, the protagonist and villain meet again in the afterlife",
  "For one day the protagonist and villain swap bodies and realise the exchange",
  "The protagonist becomes invisible with no idea how long it will last",
  "The protagonist finds themselves back in high school, late for an important exam",
  "A faerie offers one wish but twists every request; the protagonist must choose carefully",
  "The protagonist realises they are inside their own video game",
  "After apocalypse, the protagonist leads a ragtag band of survivors searching for food",
  "A newlywed couple finds a locked phone in the pantry containing voice messages from their future children",
  "The protagonist and three others are hurled 300 years into the past",
  "Gaining foresight makes the protagonist afraid to leave home",
  "Discovering they are a wizard, the protagonist enrols in an unknown magic school, leaving family behind",
  "The protagonist begins to hear the thoughts of people wearing the same colour clothes",
  "The protagonist dies, but the story continues",
  "The protagonist is actually a guardian angel in human form",
  "A man claiming to be God meets the protagonist; miracles soon follow",
  "Two sisters discuss the night they ran away and met a pack of vampires",
  "At Christmas dinner, a family swaps bodies and perspectives",
  "A person wakes up in the body of their own dog—just in time for breakfast",
  "Two writers 1,000 miles apart produce identical manuscripts word for word",
  "Parents and child meet an ancestor dead for centuries and take a stroll together",
  "Lost Incan treasure is found glowing in an Ohio school basement—why and how?",
  "The protagonist goes blind overnight but begins hearing unheard sounds",
  "In 2150, most of America is one vast city; a small wasteland remains with a handful of survivors—who are they?",
  "A supporting character starts a business, asks the protagonist to help, and they fall in love",
  "The protagonist’s best friend joins the villain under false pretence of goodness",
  "The protagonist is hired by the villain’s corrupt company but assigned genuinely helpful work—can it last?",
  "The protagonist, best friend, and villain become tangled in a complex triangle",
  "At a restaurant, the protagonist overhears a quarrelling couple who are ex-lovers still in love",
  "Trying to help a stressed character, the protagonist’s kindness worsens everything",
  "The protagonist attends a dance recital for a lover’s mother, but the lover never shows",
  "At a dinner party, someone the protagonist despises arrives—how do they react?",
  "A boyfriend of five years proposes before the protagonist’s entire family, but a secret makes her hesitate",
  "The protagonist matches with a celebrity on a dating app—what happens on the date?",
  "At a party, a friend introduces someone the protagonist already knows—but neither admits it",
  "Dining with her mother, the protagonist senses tension; the mother says, ‘I have something to tell you.’",
  "Father and son reunite after twenty years—why the long silence and what brought them together?",
  "The person the protagonist loves suddenly finds the villain more appealing",
  "A supporting character proposes on one knee, but the protagonist loves someone else",
  "In a bar, a mysterious stranger enchants the protagonist—there’s just one deadly problem",
  "Lines the author never wrote appear in his manuscript—what does the ghostwriter want?",
  "The protagonist returns home to find the family vanished",
  "Waking covered in strange tattoos, the protagonist remembers nothing of getting them",
  "An object from last night’s nightmare lies beside the protagonist’s pillow",
  "Cousins hitchhike to an abandoned house where flames burn yet nobody tends them",
  "The protagonist wakes with a pounding head inside a car trunk",
  "A fugitive leaves proof of innocence for searchers to find",
  "After a twenty-year ‘Rip Van Winkle’ sleep, the protagonist’s friends don’t believe the tale",
  "Concert-goers scramble for nonexistent exits as a monster approaches",
  "Lost teens meet a witch who offers wishes in exchange for their baby sister",
  "The protagonist finds a long-lost sibling living in misfortune and hiding a dangerous secret",
  "A family heirloom inherited by the protagonist is cursed",
  "The protagonist discovers a chained black mahogany door in the basement",
  "Camping with family, strange noises emanate from the tent—unlike any animal",
  "The protagonist converses with a ‘ghost’ of the past—spirit or memory-made vision",
  "After drunken gambling, a magician’s white rabbit sits on the protagonist’s chest",
  "The protagonist wakes on a rooftop in underwear with no memory",
  "To inherit a fortune, the protagonist must spend a night in a haunted mansion",
  "Selling his soul to a demon relative solves all problems—at first",
  "Three-quarters of humanity vanishes overnight; the protagonist awakens to emptiness",
  "Adopted twin sisters search for their father and discover he was always nearby",
  "Pets disappear; the protagonist learns a friend turned werewolf is responsible",
  "The protagonist awakes wearing a glowing ring of blue electricity",
  "Without constant focus, souls slip from bodies; everyone risks becoming their own ghost",
  "Investigating a park after sensing something off, the protagonist sees stranger things than expected",
  "The protagonist is trapped in a dream rapidly curdling into nightmare",
  "Arriving at work, the receptionist of five years fails to recognise the protagonist’s existence",
  "The protagonist wakes tied to a hospital bed and a nurse calls him by the wrong name—what happened?",
  "A doorbell rings; a mysterious parcel outside contains something utterly unexpected",
  "Imagine a criminal committing horror and escaping—will guilt catch up or not?",
  "The protagonist’s sibling is wanted for a grave crime yet claims innocence—whom to believe?",
  "The villain’s great-grandmother’s ghost warns the protagonist to leave her descendant alone",
  "On commute, streets are eerily empty; at the office, nothing and no one remains",
  "A child’s drawings manifest in reality; parents seek an explanation",
  "The protagonist collapses; another character must step in",
  "In a library the protagonist finds a strange photo that captivates them—what’s in it?",
  "Grandmother dies leaving the protagonist a bizarre inheritance",
  "Facing the nemesis, the villain monologues; how does the protagonist exploit the pause?",
  "The villain achieves ultimate victory—what next?",
  "For unknown reasons, the protagonist and villain live each other’s lives for a day",
  "Protagonist and villain become college roommates, chaos ensues",
  "It turns out the villain was right all along, leaving the protagonist to explain",
  "The protagonist wins a $3.4 million lottery but refuses the prize—why?",
  "Attempting suicide, the protagonist is stopped by a stranger at the last moment",
  "The king dies; the villain’s best friend ascends the throne and may not be so bad",
  "Late for an appointment, the protagonist faces escalating obstacles",
  "A birthday wish on cake candles comes true—was it truly what the protagonist wanted?",
  "Unable to afford repairs on a crumbling house, the protagonist contemplates using old gasoline found in the garage",
  "Family traditions abound but the protagonist secretly breaks one taboo; if discovered, they may be disowned",
  "Normally introverted, the protagonist wakes to find every thought spoken aloud, causing chaos",
  "A feuding family must ask their hostile neighbours for urgent help—how will they respond?"
]