Paid Subscriber Mad Lib: The Morning After

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I just got a notification from Substack that Substack may be randomly gifting one-month paid subscriptions to some of my free subscribers in hopes that they will become ongoing paid subscribers. (Substack also benefits when I get more paid subscribers, as Substack receives a cut of my pay.) Here goes my attempt at a fun Mad Lib to reward paid subscribers:

The Morning After

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It was the first of November, and Tony woke up in his bed. Everything looked like a normal morning. This was not supposed to happen.

Tony had just spent the first half of fall 2024 scaring people on his YouTube channel with a very dramatic story. He claimed that the following stars were going to line up in the heavens on Halloween night: [animal], [vegetable], [mineral], and [continent]. This alignment, he said, had not been seen in [very large number] years. Surely these four fixed stars represented the four horsemen of the apocalypse, and his viewers needed to be very afraid!