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39 Best Fiction Short Story Ideas
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For a week or so you've noticed a stray animal hanging around your home. One day you let it in.
A habitually fearful person turns brave.
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 pass by a person sitting with their face to the sun, the most content smile you've ever seen on their face.
You work at an airport and notice the same person waiting in "arrivals" every week. Each time, they leave alone. One day you muster the courage to ask who they are waiting for.
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.
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