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34 Best Christmas Short Story Ideas
Showing 34 short story ideas curated by Reedsy.
Write a story about a rival studio that is desperately trying to create a song to outsell Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You."
Write a story from the perspective of a snowman who has just come to life. Plot twist: he's missing eyes.
"What? You're Father who? I don't know no Father Christmas, now get off of my lawn!"
Write a story about Christmas from the perspective of someone who hates Christmas.
You participated in your office's Secret Santa, but no one will admit to buying your gift. Write a story about the search for the mysterious gifter.
Write about Christmas from the perspective of the local cat.
You are going home for Christmas for the first time in twenty-five years.
Set your story at a busy airport during Christmas week.
Write a story set at a peppermint convention for people obsessed with peppermint.
Write a story that starts with the pick-up line, "I must be a snowflake because I’ve fallen for you."
You're the director at a marketing agency. Your next project: to come up with an irresistibly catchy Christmas jingle. The only problem is that you hate Christmas.
Your parents named you Holly after your grandmother, and you just accepted an invite for a group called The Jolly Hollies thinking that it was a club for people with your name. Turns out that it's actually an annual caroling group, and you can't sing.
Write a story about a high-stakes decoration competition between neighbors vyying for the title of Most Festive Home in their city (and the local newspaper feature that comes with it).
Write a story that begin and ends around an awkward Christmas dinner table.
"I didn't believe in Christmas until now." What might have happened to cause this character to say this?
You just discovered that you can teleport into one Hallmark Christmas rom-com of your choosing. Which movie do you choose, and what happens differently in the movie because of your arrival?
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