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27 Best Fantasy Short Story Ideas
Showing 27 short story ideas curated by Reedsy.
You're the world's best photographer. Your secret? You can freeze time.
A legendary dragon is on its way to capture a princess. Plot twist: the princess kidnaps it, and temporarily locks it away in her tower to teach it a lesson.
You find your grandparent's old chessboard in the attic. Absentmindedly, you move a piece. The next day, an opposing piece has been moved.
Instead of trying to get a man on the moon, every nation raced to be the first at the very bottom of the ocean.
In a quiet little coffee shop in a quiet little town, famous people from history stop by every so often for a drink.
Two people are playing chess. One person can read minds, the other person can see the future.
Money really does grow on trees and is heavily regulated by governments.
A wand-maker goes to the forest ready to work, only to find a group of environmentalists camped out in front of their favorite hemlock tree.
The Earth does not rotate. One side always faces the sun and is in continual daylight. The other side is in eternal night. Cultures on both sides develop around this.
Every pirate claims to be the scourge of the seven seas, but none claim the eighth.
A writer becomes trapped inside their own book.
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