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47 Best Dramatic Short Story Ideas
Showing 47 short story ideas curated by Reedsy.
There is a fountain that truly does grant wishes to those who throw coins in it.
There's someone standing on the corner of the street you live on. It's the fifth time they've been there this week.
You find your grandparent's old chessboard in the attic. Absentmindedly, you move a piece. The next day, an opposing piece has been moved.
"Today is the last day," you decide, staring up at the 67-story building that has owned your life for the last 10 years.
You hear music emanating from aisle 3 of your local grocery store. No one else hears it.
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.
You're in an airport, watching people say goodbye before heading through security.
You thought you were the last person left on Earth. Today you found out that might not be true.
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 find a well-kept, spotless leather bound book in the middle of a vast desert.
Two friends are meeting at a high school reunion. They have not seen each other in ten years.
Someone you believed to be dead "comes back."
You open a fortune cookie at a Chinese restaurant. Inside is a handwritten note.
"I love you," you said. Before you could hear a response, your phone died.
You are part of a huge team of accountants that manages the karma of people on earth.
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