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So I'm hungarian. I've written a short story which I decided to translate via ChatGPT. I hope you enjoy! Bzzzz… bzzzz…Two messages came in on the phone, then a call.Piper didn’t want to get up from the couch. She listened as the ringing stopped and fell back asleep. Five minutes later the phone started ringing again. She slowly began to get up, hoping it would stop before she fully woke up, but it just kept ringing. She headed toward the bedroom. She already had her hand on the doorknob when the caller gave up. Shit. Now she walked over to her phone to check it. It couldn’t have been Miles. She’d told him she wanted to sleep. She looked at the screen. Vince He had already called twice, but before that he’d texted. She opened the SMS. you hearing me Pierce! She asked what he wanted. Another call. -Hello!-Hey, Gavin here! Don’t pay attention to Vince, he’s really drunk.-Okay. – said Piper, and hung up. Bzzzz… Vincent had sent another message. And Vince is NOT in love with you. Piper knew Vince had written that, and she knew he was lying. How could she not know? The guy didn’t hide it very well, but she had gotten herself a boyfriend, someone who made her feel safer about the future than Vince did, who was pretty reckless. Bzzzz… I’m gonna kill him, she thought. Now he’d sent a picture on Snapchat. In the photo it was pretty obvious the shaved-head boy was drunk. She figured she’d send one back. What could go wrong? That seemed to be the end of it. Since she’d already given up on sleep, she sat down on the white couch in the living room and started playing PlayStation. Two minutes later a call interrupted her. Vince She picked up. -Yeah?-Hey! I don’t trust Miles. – Vince said from the other end of the line.-What do you mean by that?-There’s no such thing as a person who’s smart, funny, good-looking, and a good person. That just doesn’t exist.-Miles.-That’s exactly what I’m saying. You can’t fake the first three. So he can’t be a good person.-Don’t say things like that. You know I overthink everything.-Sorry. I’m sure he’s really nice and if I get to know him, I’ll like him.
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@Zane Dowling Its because it is the first short story of five, that revolve around the apartment, thats why Vince had to hit the drywall, so it would leave a mark.
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@Zane Dowling I appriciate it. I read it in english and the translation is pretty messy. Sorry for the swear words, I'm gonna look out for them next time. And I dont really think I need character depth because, I'm just trying to symbolize how special everybodies life is, and that everyone has their own problem. I didn't include the foreword, but I'm gonna do that now. Also I'm practicing show, don't tell, but I think there is such thing as overdoing it. Thanks again for the feedback.😁 Here's the foreword: Author’s Foreword People do not really understand that no one is special and everyone is special at the same time. It all depends on how you define the word special. If, to you, special means someone with unique abilities—someone who can work out a difficult equation in their head in a matter of seconds—then so few people are special that you could almost say no one is. But if, to you, special means someone whose life is interesting, unique, and impossible to predict, then yes, everyone is special. More than that. We have no idea how many special people pass through an apartment over the course of a decade. In this apartment, there were five. In 2016, Piper Pierce moved in and lived there until 2019. Devin West bought it in 2019 and lived there through the quarantine, until 2021. Aaron Smith moved in in 2021 and moved out six months later, so that same year another tenant arrived, in the form of Sadie Turner. She moved out in 2025. Francis Doyle was the apartment’s last resident. In 2026, he, along with every piece of furniture and all those long-forgotten stories, was consumed by the flames. So much happened in apartment 505 on the fifth floor of Mercer Heights 4087, and all of it is separated from the world by a single ornate green door. Push down its bronze handle, open it, and you step into an apartment that is white for no good reason. The interior designer, if there even was one, did not spend much time thinking about the color palette. The walls and ceiling are painted cream. Stepping from the hallway into the living room, only one thing breaks up the padded-cell feeling: a red-brown patterned rug spread across the floor. The sofa, armchair, and coffee table are all white. Even the television frame is white.
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Bence Szalma
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Amatőr író, amatőrebb vágó! :D

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