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Write a story that includes someone saying, “It’s not fair.”
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Write a story about a character who is trying to become a better person.
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Write about a character with questionable morals.
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47 stories
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Start your story with a couple sharing a cigarette in a parking lot.
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Write about someone deliberately trying to make somebody else envious.
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Write a story about a pathological liar.
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Start your story with a character or a narrator saying, “Don’t you remember?”
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Write about false news coverage of an important event.
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Write about two characters arguing over how a past event happened.
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38 stories
Set your story in a kids’ playground, or at a roundabout.
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49 stories
Write a story that includes a character using the phrase “swings and roundabouts.”
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41 stories
