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53 Best Funny Short Story Ideas
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It's March 31st, the busiest day of the year at the joke shop you own.
Write a story with an open ending.
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 bartender at a neighborhood pub. A regular comes in and says, "Do I have a story for you!"
It's Wednesday evening and you're off to the weekly meeting of your writer's block support group.
You are an expert spy for the British government, trained to perfection. Your only weakness is that your background music alerts enemies to your presence.
You are a student working on a team project. You and your group are accidentally locked in the school library overnight.
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.
You have a writer's block breakthrough at the worst possible time.
You wake up to the sound of a voice. Nervous, you look around the room until your eyes land on your pet. You swear you just heard it sleep-talking.
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 were staring out the bus window idly when someone sat down and said, "What a DAY!"
Many action movies involve the hero jumping into a vehicle and demanding the driver to "follow that car!" Write from the perspective of the driver.
You are a curmudgeonly old man whose name is Writer S. Block. You just spotted your next victim.
While transferring between international flights at an airport, you befriend a strange person while passing through security.
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