[ WP ] You are a lurker of /r/WritingPrompts , and you always attempt to write a prompt of your own . The only problem ? Every time you try to do so , someone else has already posted your idea , word for word .

`` Okay. Alright. No other posts. This time it's safe. It's safe.'' 
 
 I poured over the short story I'd written. 
 
 `` I took this story in as strange of a direction as I possibly could. It's barely related to the prompt in any way. To call it loosely based off this this post's idea would be generous. Yeah. It'll work this time. It'll work.'' 
 
 I refreshed the thread to be sure nobody else posted yet. I did that. I had to. I could n't let it happen again. Not again. 
 
 `` Okay. Here it goes.'' I paused, my mouse just over the `` save'' button. I hesitated, as I always do before posting anything online. Especially with how critically outspoken redditors are. The internet is an unforgiving place. 
 
 So I did it. I clicked it. 
 
 And of course, as always, every single time, someone else beat me to it by a few seconds. Someone else posted my same story verbatim. A different person every time. With names eerily similar to my own. 
 
 `` Appleclock? Appleclock?! Are you kidding me?!'' I huffed and puffed a few times, clenching my fists as if there were anyone else around to punch. `` This is absurd. First Apocolick, then Clockopocko. This can not be real.'' 
 
 I scrolled through the story, and of course, it was exactly the same, down to the typos. To the typos! 
 
 Then a thought crossed my mind that locked me up. 
 
 `` Maybe, just maybe, I have a keylogger. Someone managed to get malware on my computer, yeah, that has to be it. And they're stealing my stories and submitting them with vaguely similar user names.'' 
 
 So, like any rational thinking human being, I went out to the garage, grabbed a red canister of fuel, came back inside, doused my PC in gasoline, and set it on fire. 
 
 `` Anyway, that's why I burned my house down, officer. It was an honest to God mistake.'' 
 
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 Edit: Guys what the hell! I just posted this!
