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The prompt was “conversation.” I took it a bit further and made a short story entirely out of dialogue because dialogue is my jam.

“You know, this could be worse.”

“Oddsballs, Lawrence! We’re scheduled to be banished. Forever. How could it possibly be worse?”

“Well, I mean, we could have been killed, so….”

“Yes, being taken away from our country, never to see our friends and family again, is much better. I feel so much more optimistic now.”

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