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It was one of those crisp autumn mornings where the sunlight filtered through my kitchen window, casting long shadows across the counter. I had just poured myself a cup of coffee, the steam rising in gentle curls, when a notification buzzed on my phone. My heart did a little skip—not out of excitement, but that familiar twinge of anxiety that comes with checking my retirement account. I’ve never been great with numbers; they always felt like cryptic symbols meant for someone else, someone more f

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Drizzle smeared the bus window as we crawled through another gray London afternoon. My knuckles whitened around the damp pole while commuters' umbrellas dripped melancholy onto worn vinyl seats. That's when the neon graffiti on a brick wall caught my eye - or rather, didn't. Just another patch of urban decay until I fumbled for my phone. Color Changing Camera didn't ask permission. It didn't even wait for me to press anything. The instant I launched it, those crumbling bricks erupted in violent

The 7:15 express to Frankfurt felt like a steel coffin that morning. I’d just spotted the empty seat where my laptop bag should’ve been—left steaming on my kitchen counter during the pre-dawn chaos. Sweat prickled my collar as the conductor’s whistle screeched; my biggest investor pitch deck was due in 90 minutes, trapped inside that forgotten machine. Every jolt of the train hammered the dread deeper. Then it hit me: last night’s desperate 2 a.m. email to myself. With shaking thumbs, I stabbed