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47 Best Dramatic Short Story Ideas
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You find a well-kept, spotless leather bound book in the middle of a vast desert.
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.
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.
"See you later!" you called, not realizing it wasn't true.
"Today is the last day," you decide, staring up at the 67-story building that has owned your life for the last 10 years.
As the floor trembles and the walls shake, you know there is only one way to survive.
You hear music emanating from aisle 3 of your local grocery store. No one else hears it.
You've done the unthinkable in the 21st century: found undiscovered land.
Write about the way the sunset looks from the perspective of two characters. One is sad, the other is happy.
"I love you," you said. Before you could hear a response, your phone died.
A plane that's been missing for years suddenly lands at a major airport.
Two friends are meeting at a high school reunion. They have not seen each other in ten years.
While dozing by the fire in your winter cabin, you hear a knock at the door. Blizzard conditions have closed all surrounding roads, and the nearest neighbor is miles away.
You wake up from a coma that no one expected you to recover from.
A bittersweet farewell: bitter for one person, sweet for the other.
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