A long-married couple tries something new in order to add some excitement to their marriage.ġ4. People on a first date both pretend to be people they aren’t.ġ3. Three months after setting up a profile on the dating app, someone finally shows interest.ġ2. A church or a business faces the prospect of closing.ġ1. Someone gains an understanding of what their future life is going to be like if they take the job, leave the job, marry the person, or leave the person.ġ0. Someone inherits something from a deceased relative and hardly knows what to do with it.ĩ. Two strangers at a funeral learn that they have something in common other than knowing the person who just passed.Ĩ. Two strangers have a trivial argument on the internet, but wind up being friends or getting crushes on each other.ħ. A bride or groom strongly regrets their choice for maid of honor or best man.Ħ. A person who isn’t a bride-to-be is shopping for a wedding dress.ĥ. A person has a good reason to pretend they’re much older than they actually are.Ĥ. A breakup or a reunion happens in an emergency room.Ģ, Someone winds up with a pet they didn’t intend to adopt.ģ. Save this on Pinterest for future reference!ġ. Like all my writing prompts lists, each one of these can be taken in countless different ways, so you can use any of them and still be 100% creative and original. I wrote all of these with contemporary, real-life fiction in mind, but you could always add a science fiction or magical element, or imagine it in a historical setting. In my years of blogging, I’ve tried to share lots of awesome story ideas (like my Mystery Writing Ideas, Fantasy Story Ideas, and Romance Plot Ideas.) I’m sure some of my previous lists of plot ideas could be short story prompts, but I thought I’d do a list specifically for good short story ideas.
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