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53 Best Funny Short Story Ideas
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You have wondered how to bring down Jane Lotsacash for years. Now, the key to her demise rests on your desk...
Write a story that ends with a shocking plot twist.
It was the most epic senior prank your high school had ever seen.
You find your grandparent's old chessboard in the attic. Absentmindedly, you move a piece. The next day, an opposing piece has been moved.
You start what was supposed to just be a business front for a money laundering scheme, but your silly idea is making more money than you ever dreamed.
While transferring between international flights at an airport, you befriend a strange person while passing through security.
"BOO!" you yell, grabbing the shoulders of a person you think is your friend from behind. They turn around and it's a total stranger.
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 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?"
"I'd like to buy a plane ticket to your furthest destination today," you told the airline employee.
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.
Write a story with an open ending.
It's Wednesday evening and you're off to the weekly meeting of your writer's block support group.
You are a curmudgeonly old man whose name is Writer S. Block. You just spotted your next victim.
The Tooth Fairy finds something unexpected sitting beside the expected tooth under a child's pillow.
You are on a solo camping trip in the woods. After a deep night's sleep, you awake to the voice of someone saying, "Rise and shine!"
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