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One summer over 5,300 years ago, a neolithic man was murdered in the Italian Alps and preserved naturally in ice until he was discovered accidentally by two German hikers in 1991. "The Ice Man" had 61 tattoos, a deep cut to his right hand, a flint arrowhead stuck in his left shoulder, and an innovative copper axe. Write the backstory behind the real-life murder of this glacier mummy named "Ötzi".
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I waited until the last ice cube melted in my glass, and then made my move.
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She always ordered one scoop of vanilla ice cream with crushed salt and vinegar chips as a cool reminder.
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Write a short play or parable about two lovers separated by a wall of ice broken only by their confessions to one another.
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In a world where undocumented people are barred from dreaming and sleep cycles are policed by the state, a compliant worker in the forensics division of the "Imagination Corrections and Enforcement" (I.C.E.) department sorts through contraband dream fragments and suddenly discovers one with her in it.
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