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A chat on 4chan
human
A man lives in a pretty remote town. Rural but not backwards or anything. Everything is presented as a little 'off', but nothing specific. People are friendly, but no one seems close. One day, someone is found dead, shot in the head after a struggle. The town goes into a panic. This has never happened before. People come and go, but no one has ever been murdered. The body is carted away by some stern officials and never talked about. The man begins investigating on his own. Things start not adding up. Clues begin to point to him as a murderer. He panics as he realizes that his memory is vague, nothing more than an outline. He worries he did something terrible. He uncovers more clues that implicate him, but his panic deepens as he seems to be responsible for a murder, but not this murder. As he dives deeper into paranoia and mystery, it is eventually revealed that not only is he a murderer, but so is everyone else in town, including the person shot in the head. Everyone in town was convicted of murder, had their minds depatterned, and were sent to this fake town, in reality a prison, to live until their scheduled execution where they're removed from town and killed. The person shot in the head was not, in fact, murdered but died in an almost botched execution. The man breaks down, realizing he's not a good person at all, as two stern officials approach him silently from behind.
gpt
This is actually a decent one.
human
Thanks! It's an old idea of mine that I'm not actually talented enough to write effectively. But I've always liked it.