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I posted my short story on Reddit. Now Sydney Sweeney is producing and starring in my tale


Massachusetts school teacher Joe Cote, now 34, wrote a shorty story thriller during Covid and posted it to Reddit. Four years later, he heard from a manager; now Sydney Sweeney is set to star in a film version

It felt 'almost quite literally unbelievable' as Massachusetts teacher Joe Cote handed out bathroom passes on Friday to high school students and wandered familiar halls ... while his name blared from Hollywood headlines alongside heavyweights like Sydney Sweeney. News had broken the day before that Cote's Gone Girl-style short story, written in his kitchen during the pandemic and casually posted on Reddit, had not only been discovered by Tinseltown but would also now be made into a Warner Bros feature. It's almost hard for him to reconcile the journey he’s had since sitting down in that kitchen during Covid, his Shiba Inu at his feet, to write a story about a protagonist who pretended to be missing teen in order to rob the family of the real 18-year-old.

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