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A Stitch in Time:
Full sentences, incomplete sentences on standalone lines and lines with punctuation omitted. Remaining lines shuffled, with the first and second clause on each line being alternatingly omitted.

The Chef:     – Kiya van der Linden-Kian
Repeated phrases underlined, and lines they came from isolated and shuffled.

Form & Land:     – R.C. Jordan @realworldculture
Nouns whited out. Letters in the phrase 'form and land' whited out from adjectives.

Pseudocontinental:
Opening excerpt used. Paragraphs are duplicated and superimposed over the next paragraph with the same number of lines. Paragraphs with a unique number of lines omitted.

The Puffy Canvas:     – David Churack
Exposition omitted. Protagonist dialogue and italicised quotes replaced with randomly selected phrases from omitted text of equal word length. Dialogue replacements are selected word for word and italicised phrase replacements are full quotes.

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