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Someone goes through years and years of cross-word puzzles published in the Newark Chronicle and finds that the answers have all foreseen the future when assembled correctly.
BooYah! I want half of the profits.
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A young boy, living in Newark, New Jersey, sits in his grandmother's attic one hot summer writing furiously in journal after journal. Despite his worried family and friends and their pleas to come down and eat, play, etc., he can't stop. Whenever they forcefully move him, he sneaks away when he can and goes right back up to write. He doesn't necessarily want to write, but his mind is filled with these fantastic happenings, he's being trapped in them, and feels an overwhelming urge to write it all down.
He dies from exhaustion and the family seals up the attic, journals and all, and sells the house several years later.
And then the novel "proper":
30 years later, another family buys the house, and in exploring, the children find the journals. They start reading them in order, and they start out with mundane happenings...the children are shocked to discover that the journals are recounting things that are happening to them throughout the neighborhood. They are weirded out, and start reading ahead... and find all the crazy, fantastic happenings...and tell themselves that could never happen.. it's just a coincidence..
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