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53 Best Funny Short Story Ideas
Showing 53 short story ideas curated by Reedsy.
You are a server at a restaurant, having the busiest shift of your life.
Your new cell phone number used to be the number of a very popular personal therapist.
While looking through old photos you discover something that unequivocally settles an argument that ended a childhood friendship decades ago.
Write a story that ends with a shocking plot twist.
You are a curmudgeonly old man whose name is Writer S. Block. You just spotted your next victim.
You could only watch in disbelief as the work-place prank you had planned turned to chaos.
An office worker's favorite coffee mug has gone missing, and the obsessive search for the mug throughout the workplace turns into a dire and ridiculous odyssey.
You accidentally break something at a dinner party and go to ever-increasing lengths to cover it up.
You have wondered how to bring down Jane Lotsacash for years. Now, the key to her demise rests on your desk...
You are in a bar when an elderly woman takes the stool next to you and says to the bartender, "Hey, Francine, make it a double. It happened again." You can't resist and ask her, "What happened again?"
You are a space kitty, traveling from planet to planet. You write a letter home and this is what it says.
You open a door, but before you can go through, someone sneaks in front of you without saying "thank you." You've had an awful day and this is the last straw.
You're a food critic eating the best meal of your life. You're at McDonalds.
A friendly pranking rivalry between two colleagues in an office starts to get serious.
You are a student working on a team project. You and your group are accidentally locked in the school library overnight.
One day, the world wakes up to find the Easter Island heads facing the opposite direction.
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