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39 Best Fiction Short Story Ideas
Showing 39 short story ideas curated by Reedsy.
Write about the origin of the saying "April showers bring May flowers."
Mars is the new wild west, complete with gunslingers.
You wake up the day after an epic party. You're not where you expected to be.
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.
Write a story where your character finds out a rumor is circulating about them.
A person wakes up in bed, drenched in salty ocean water.
This was the moment you'd been waiting for. Gleefully, you raised your camera to take a picture and then... the battery died.
You're a busker in Central Park on a spring day.
A story that takes place in the Wild West, but the world is frigid, covered with snow and ice instead of sand.
"Say cheese!" You push the camera button, hear the click, and... that's when all hell broke loose.
An elderly person finally takes the last picture on a film camera they've had for decades. Today they're going to print it.
A tree falls in the woods. You're around to hear it.
A logical person starts acting irrationally.
You're sitting in a coffee shop watching someone type on their computer. They type the words, "It begins raining outside", and it instantly starts raining.
You got on the wrong bus and ended up in a remote town where things seemed a little odd.
A habitually fearful person turns brave.
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