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Every day when you get home, you rant to your pet about how awful your day was. One day they start talking back — to give you a dose of tough love.

Dialogue

Using only dialogue, write a short story about a first date, a reunion between old friends, an argument that gets heated, an adult explaining something to a child, or the reveal of a long-hidden secret.

Dialogue

Using only dialogue, write a short story about the reveal of a long-hidden secret.

Dialogue

Using only dialogue, write a short story about an adult explaining something to a child.

Dialogue

Using only dialogue, write a short story about an argument that gets heated.

Dialogue

Using only dialogue, write a short story about a reunion between old friends.

Dialogue

Using only dialogue, write a short story about a first date.

Dialogue

Write a story that uses NO dialogue.

Dialogue

Write about an average, unextraordinary Sunday. Rely on the character's internal dialogue to make the story interesting.

Dialogue

Write a story only through a character's internal dialogue.

Dialogue

Write a short story that ONLY uses dialogue.

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