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Tropes
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Write about a person who meets with the ghost of an old friend for tea every so often.

Fantasy – 116 stories

Write about someone who works an average job — but incorporate elements of magic into it.

Fantasy – 77 stories

Write a story in which the lines between awake and dreaming are blurred.

Fantasy – 125 stories

Write a magical realism story that takes place in the Wild West.

Fantasy – 51 stories

You go for a walk in fresh snow. Suddenly you realize you're not leaving any footprints.

Fantasy – 128 stories

It's just been discovered that luck is a hereditary trait.

Fantasy

For hundreds of years, it's been thought that all of the land has been discovered. But that's not true, and you're about to prove it.

Fantasy

This year, when everyone set their clocks forward an hour for Daylight Savings... time went much further forward than simply an hour.

Fantasy

Write a story subverting a fantasy trope.

Fantasy

Every day when you open your eyes, you see things in different colors.

Fantasy

A day in the life of a genie who annoyingly keeps getting summoned by inept humans.

Fantasy

Write a short story about the star-crossed love between an orc and an elf.

Fantasy

You look up in the sky and think that you're seeing things for a moment. But you're not. There are two moons above you.

Fantasy

Write a short story in which the orc turns out to be the hero.

Fantasy

Did the sprig of arugula in my salad just yell, "Don't eat me"?

Fantasy

The Sorting Hat is stolen — and you are the thief. Why did you steal it and what do you mean to do with it?

Fantasy

Your polite new neighbors who just moved in next door have suspiciously pointed ears and speak a language that you can't find on Google Translate.

Fantasy

Your garden is being infested by a particularly troublesome family of gnomes.

Fantasy

You stumble into a dragon-fighting ring. What happens next?

Fantasy

You have the power of alchemy, but you can only transform things into useless materials — or seemingly useless, anyhow.

Fantasy

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