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41 Best Kids Short Story Ideas
Showing 41 short story ideas curated by Reedsy.
Set your story at the playground!
You've just made the discovery of secret playground deep in the woods... and only you know of its existence.
You meet someone who's different from you. Write a story about how you become friends.
Some fishy things have been going on at school. Write about a group of friends who establish their own detective agency to get down to the bottom of it, once and for all.
Write a story that evokes the feeling of nails on a chalkboard!
Write a story about a character who can only tell lies.
You wake up one day and find that you can suddenly talk to animals.
Set your story at a noisy school assembly, where two characters are trying to hold an important and private conversation.
You just found a key in your pocket that wasn't there when you last checked.
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