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  1. Write multiple paragraphs about aliens that invade and take over the earth.
  2. This will be an iterative process so there's no need to write the entire thing in one sitting.
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  4. Start with the description of a normal day and hint at something strange happening.
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  8. It was an ordinary morning in early autumn. The air was crisp, the sun barely peeking over the horizon, casting long shadows over the empty streets. The usual bustle of people preparing for their day was present—cars honking, joggers tapping their feet to the rhythm of their headphones, and the occasional group of kids walking to school, laughing. The world seemed, for all intents and purposes, exactly as it always had been. No one suspected that anything was amiss. There were no signs, no alarms, no flashing red lights. Just the hum of the city waking up.
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  10. But something felt slightly off—hard to put into words, but noticeable nonetheless. It started with a faint, almost imperceptible shift in the air. A tremor in the atmosphere, like a deep breath held too long. The birds, typically chirping in their morning symphony, had gone silent. The leaves on the trees hung still, as if frozen in place. It was as if nature itself was holding its breath, waiting for something.
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  12. In the sky, the clouds drifted lazily, but there was something about their movement that didn’t quite align with the typical wind patterns. They lingered in strange, deliberate formations, almost as though they were waiting for something—someone. And then, just as the first rays of light broke through the sky, a low, distant hum began to echo from above. It wasn’t the sound of jets or helicopters; this was something different. Something that seemed to vibrate in the very bones of those who heard it, but still, it wasn’t loud enough to demand immediate attention. People went about their day, dismissing the strange sensation in the air as nothing more than an odd coincidence.
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  14. Yet, for those who were paying attention, a ripple of unease spread. It was subtle but undeniable. No one knew it yet, but the world was about to change forever.
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  18. Rumors start to spread among the populace. A select few can feel something in the air, something that will change their life in a significant way, but they can't quite place just what it is.
  19. Keep the pacing slow and build up tension.
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  23. The buzz started slowly, almost as if it was a whisper carried on the wind. It wasn’t enough to draw attention at first, but there were murmurs, bits and pieces of strange conversations heard in quiet corners—at the coffee shop, on the subway, in the breakroom at work. People seemed distracted, as if there was something they should have been paying attention to but couldn’t quite grasp.
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  25. “I don’t know… I just feel… *off* today,” one woman said to her colleague, glancing nervously toward the window. “You feel it, right? Like, I don’t know… something in the air?”
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  27. Her colleague, distracted by the screen in front of him, gave a distracted nod. “Yeah, I guess. You’re probably just tired or something.” But his words didn’t quite match the furrowed brow he wore as he tried to ignore the prickle of unease creeping along his spine. He didn’t feel tired. He felt... *watched*.
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  29. In other places, the conversations were a bit more cryptic. A man on the street stopped another passerby, his voice tense but his words still barely coherent. “You—*you hear that hum?* There’s something—there’s something in the sky... it’s... *vibrating.*” The other person laughed nervously, looking up for a moment, but saw nothing unusual.
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  31. But for a select few, it wasn’t just the hum. It was a sensation that dug deeper, into something primal, something that had no name. Like an invisible pressure slowly mounting around their temples, pressing harder and harder without release. Those who were sensitive enough could feel it, the way the air had thickened—like a storm just before it broke, but without the telltale crackle of thunder. It was in the way people moved too, a subtle stiffness in their gait, as if everyone were waiting for something, but no one knew what.
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  33. Some people even thought they had seen flashes of something strange in the sky, fleeting glimpses of something metallic or unnatural, but each time they looked directly, it was gone. Dismissed as a trick of the light, maybe, or a figment of imagination. Yet, the feeling of anticipation only grew stronger. In the news, the usual headlines scrolled past: a new political scandal, a celebrity caught in some embarrassing moment. But the oddity—the *tension*—lingered just beneath the surface, like an undercurrent no one was acknowledging.
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  35. And then, one night, as the city lights began to flicker on, a man named Ethan, sitting in his apartment on the 23rd floor, couldn’t shake the feeling. It was a quiet evening—he hadn’t planned to go out, nothing remarkable on his schedule—but as he gazed out his window, the view of the city stretching out beneath him, he saw it. A brief pulse, like the reflection of light off metal, but it was not from any airplane or helicopter. It wasn’t a reflection at all. He blinked, rubbed his eyes, and when he looked again, the light was gone.
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  37. But that feeling, that *waiting* feeling, had settled deeper inside of him, like the first tremor before an earthquake.
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  39. “I think something's coming,” he muttered to himself. But no one else could see it. No one else could *feel* it.
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