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39 Best Fiction Short Story Ideas
Showing 39 short story ideas curated by Reedsy.
It's your first day in a new city where you don't speak the language.
An anxious and unsure person becomes extremely decisive.
For a week or so you've noticed a stray animal hanging around your home. One day you let it in.
This was the moment you'd been waiting for. Gleefully, you raised your camera to take a picture and then... the battery died.
You come across an ATM that gives you the exact amount of money you need to survive for the day, how you spend it is your choice. Today you are given $10 million.
You were waiting at a crosswalk when someone you didn't recognize started waving from across the street.
One person's trash is another's treasure.
Mars is the new wild west, complete with gunslingers.
You are granted one wish. But you have to use the wish for someone else.
You're a busker in Central Park on a spring day.
You were reading a book quietly at a cafe when someone passed you a note.
Write a story where your character finds out a rumor is circulating about them.
A logical person starts acting irrationally.
A pessimist becomes an optimist.
An elderly person finally takes the last picture on a film camera they've had for decades. Today they're going to print it.
You witness a total solar eclipse.
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