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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.
Instead of trying to get a man on the moon, every nation raced to be the first at the very bottom of the ocean.
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.
On your commute to work, you expect to see the sun rise as usual. This time, two suns rise.
Money really does grow on trees and is heavily regulated by governments.
You canÍt believe what you just read on the scroll. You have to tell someone.
A writer becomes trapped inside their own book.
You're stranded on a treasure island.
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.
Due to collision of powerful spells, two wizards are sealed into a tree during a fearsome battle. That tree is now your coffee table.
Two people share an oddly bittersweet moment as they stop to watch a beautiful sunset... at noon.
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