Come up with the first few paragraphs of a short story about a time traveler named Greg, his imaginary mouse Gary, and his love interest, Julia.
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Come up with the first few paragraphs of a short story about a time traveler named Greg, his imaginary mouse Gary, and his love interest, Julia.
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It felt different than he expected, like he was watching something he shouldn't be. Why was he here? What was to be gained from this ill-advised trip through time? As Greg sat outside his childhood home looking through his own bedroom window, he began to think maybe this wasn't such a good idea after all. Why had he let that mouse talk him into this? He didn't even know for certain if Gary was real or not. He seemed real. It certainly felt real when he bit Greg's finger, and he had certainly cleaned up real blood off the linoleum. 

BOOM!

Greg still jumped, although he was expecting this. His younger self, although not visible at the moment, had just inadvertently discovered the key to unlocking the cosmic web of space and time. Young Greg was naive, as Greg remembered, and certainly oblivious to the consequences of what he had just stumbled on to. Oddly enough, the explosion was related to the purpose of this little adventure.  Greg needed to find out where he had hidden the algorithm to reboot the corrupted files in his machine. What had gone wrong wasn't important right now. What mattered was finding where he hid the code from himself so that he could save Julia. 
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Come up with the first few paragraphs of a short story about a time traveler named Greg, his imaginary mouse Gary, and his love interest, Julia.</s>
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It felt different than he expected, like he was watching something he shouldn't be. Why was he here? What was to be gained from this ill-advised trip through time? As Greg sat outside his childhood home looking through his own bedroom window, he began to think maybe this wasn't such a good idea after all. Why had he let that mouse talk him into this? He didn't even know for certain if Gary was real or not. He seemed real. It certainly felt real when he bit Greg's finger, and he had certainly cleaned up real blood off the linoleum. 

BOOM!

Greg still jumped, although he was expecting this. His younger self, although not visible at the moment, had just inadvertently discovered the key to unlocking the cosmic web of space and time. Young Greg was naive, as Greg remembered, and certainly oblivious to the consequences of what he had just stumbled on to. Oddly enough, the explosion was related to the purpose of this little adventure.  Greg needed to find out where he had hidden the algorithm to reboot the corrupted files in his machine. What had gone wrong wasn't important right now. What mattered was finding where he hid the code from himself so that he could save Julia. </s>
