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39 Best Fiction Short Story Ideas
Showing 39 short story ideas curated by Reedsy.
You were waiting at a crosswalk when someone you didn't recognize started waving from across the street.
Pick a genre and then write about a long walk home after school.
You are granted one wish. But you have to use the wish for someone else.
While spring cleaning, you come across something you had forgotten all about.
Write a story where your character faces a deep fear.
Write a story where your character finds out a rumor is circulating about them.
This was the moment you'd been waiting for. Gleefully, you raised your camera to take a picture and then... the battery died.
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