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The Optimism Bias
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Complete, First published Jan 08, 2021
Just a short story I made a long time ago for a horror writing competition. I came across it agian and figured why not post it?

The Optimism Bias is thinking that bad things are less likely to happen to you. It's the feeling of, yes, people's houses burn down, but that won't happen to me. People are inclined to belive that positive things are more likely to happen than negative things.
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