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27 Best Fantasy Short Story Ideas
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Every week, you post an ad in the newspaper asking for a time traveller to contact you. One day you get a response, dated year 2200.
It is the year 3000. The sun starts to flicker.
You're stranded on a treasure island.
You head into the forest with your trusty lantern that's been enchanted to burn forever. You're looking for something.
On your commute to work, you expect to see the sun rise as usual. This time, two suns rise.
You work the night shift at a 24 hour laundromat. The job seems normal until someone crawls out of one of the washers and tells you that after dark, every machine leads to a different world.
Every pirate claims to be the scourge of the seven seas, but none claim the eighth.
You're the world's best photographer. Your secret? You can freeze time.
Instead of trying to get a man on the moon, every nation raced to be the first at the very bottom of the ocean.
A magician, a troll, and a college student walk into a bar.
You are a Nobel Prize Winner, on your way to the awards ceremony. Suddenly, you are transported back in time.
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