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30 Best Middle School Short Story Ideas
Showing 30 short story ideas curated by Reedsy.
Write a story about a character who's just moved into town.
You're home alone for the first time ever. Write a story about how the day unfolds.
You're cleaning the attic when you find something terribly old, terribly fragile, and terribly powerful...
You've just made the discovery of secret playground deep in the woods... and only you know of its existence.
A door in the locker room leads to a magical fantasy world.
Write a story about a world in which spirit animals exist. What kind of animal is your spirit animal? Why?
Write a story about a series of unfortunate events that takes place over the span of a field trip.
Write a story about two best friends at their first school dance.
A sleepover goes off the rails when a group of friends accidentally summons a being from another dimension.
Write a story about a character picking a lunch table on their first day at a new school.
Write a story about the passage of time based only upon a series of birthday wishes.
Overheard in P.E.: "It's not that I wanted to hit you in the head with the ball, it's that I thought you were a spider."
Write a story about a character whose reflection no longer appears in the mirror. (It's up to you whether or not they're also a vampire.)
Write a story about two characters competing to take the worst ever picture-day portrait.
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