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39 Best Fiction Short Story Ideas
Showing 39 short story ideas curated by Reedsy.
You are granted one wish. But you have to use the wish for someone else.
You witness a total solar eclipse.
A trusting person turns into a skeptic.
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 forgotten object is found in an attic during spring cleaning.
You're at your computer feeling heavy writer's block. Suddenly words start appearing on the screen.
While spring cleaning, you come across something you had forgotten all about.
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