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47 Best Dramatic Short Story Ideas
Showing 47 short story ideas curated by Reedsy.
It's the beginning of a new term at your university. As usual, you scramble to your first class and get there just in time. No one is there but you and the professor.
A bittersweet farewell: bitter for one person, sweet for the other.
You're on an island in the middle of the ocean. One day you find a bottle washed up on the shore with a piece of paper in it.
The world's most important chess game is about to start.
Your mother sits you and your brother down, and says, "Kids, I'm gonna tell you an incredible story the story of how I met your father."
A woman drops her wallet on the street, and it falls open. You pick it up and are about to return it to her when you notice a strange picture inside.
You discover a secret family member you never knew existed.
There's an urban legend about a taxi cab that doesn't take you where you want to go, but where you need to go. One night, you step into this cab.
Something unusual is found in a winter coat pocket.
You open a fortune cookie at a Chinese restaurant. Inside is a handwritten note.
There is a fountain that truly does grant wishes to those who throw coins in it.
Everyday you are delivered a newspaper at your front door that accurately predicts what will happen in the next 24 hours.
You're in an airport, watching people say goodbye before heading through security.
You find your grandparent's old chessboard in the attic. Absentmindedly, you move a piece. The next day, an opposing piece has been moved.
You were sitting on a park bench, enjoying the sun, when a stranger sat next to you and started typing on an old fashioned typewriter.
You are an astronaut spending your last few hours on Earth before a journey into space.
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