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He was admiring his own reflection in the well when a giant fish came out of it and swallowed Peter whole.  It was okay, because Peter could fly, and soon brought them both clear into the air, where only one of them could survive.

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Frankie met two alternate versions of himself in a single afternoon. The thing that frightened him the most was that initially he didn't recognize either of them.

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John had been described as a "mad scientist" since he attended middle school. It wasn't until he aligned himself with a third world dictator and actually held the world hostage that the distinction was referenced in the media.

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Anna walked across the street one evening, only to discover that she was no longer on the same continent. That was the moment she discovered her greatest talent.

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In the blink of an eye, the whole world changed. The only thing that remained the same was that Abner still had the same rotten luck, forced to witness every horrible accident in New York City.

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Billy had been raising his daughter alone ever since the alien invasion, but still he believed that one day they would be reunited with her mother, even though they had been abducted to another world. Humanity's resistance had prevailed, but could Billy ever forgive himself for falling in love with one of the invaders?

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Barry spoke as clearly as he could into his phone, hoping this time that it would understand what he was trying to say to it. The only reason he didn't give up on the voice recognition technology was that one day he hoped it would give him the one answer he sought more than any other, and that was where exactly he'd been stranded.

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Two decades after the fact, Sydney still had no idea what had happened to her. She could still vividly recall waking up in Hong Kong, and the events as she learned that'd played out to reach that point, but it was still a period of her life she'd probably be thinking about until the day she died, and not necessarily fondly.

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Nick realized he wasn't an ordinary boy when he skinned his knee and found out that there was metal there. When he asked his mom what he was, she just looked into his eyes and said, "You're my boy, silly."

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The serpent and the rat were best of friends at the start of the day. It wasn't until later that one of them realized that they could eat the other, and it wasn't the serpent.