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AI Did Not Write This

A weird story told in clichés

Dr. Casey Lawrence
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5 min readJun 4, 2023

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This story was written to fulfill the challenge set by Willow Dickerson: “[W]rite in such a way that [you] fool people (or maybe even AI) into thinking [your story] was written by a program.” I have given it my best shot, so here is a story written using absolutely no AI, that I hope sounds AI-generated. My strategy was to use the most basic sentences possible and as many clichés as I could possibly come up with.

Fish Out of Water

“There is a method to my madness,” said the man. “You could say, I kill two birds with one stone.”

The woman sitting across the table did not look impressed. She looked at the goldfish in the bowl and shook her head. She had always been told, ‘You can’t judge a book by its cover,’ but she could read between the lines. Her date was as crazy as an outhouse rat.

“Cat got your tongue?” he asked.

“Curiosity killed the cat,” she replied. She reminded herself that ignorance is bliss.

“I believe that honesty is the best policy,” he said.

The man had a mysterious aura about him. He was tall, dark, and handsome. It was what had attracted her to him. He had a chiseled jawline and piercing blue eyes.

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Dr. Casey Lawrence
Dr. Casey Lawrence

Written by Dr. Casey Lawrence

Canadian author of three LGBT YA novels. PhD from Trinity College Dublin. Check out my lists for stories by genre/type.

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