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You are a bartender working a night shift when a group of people come in on a holiday pub crawl.

Holiday – 37 stories

Write a short story about an inn-keeper wondering whether this will be their last holiday season in business.

Holiday – 38 stories

Write a short story about a work Christmas party that goes... awry.

Holiday – 32 stories

Just before Christmas, a long-lost relative you've never heard of enters your life.

Holiday – 60 stories

You live in a neighborhood where lots of people go out of town for the holidays. But lately, this has been resulting in an increased number of break-ins.

Holiday – 30 stories

Write a story about a character experiencing independence for the first time.

General – 70 stories

Write a story about a day in the life of a mother.

General – 58 stories

Write a story about a character who would be described above all else as "logical."

General – 36 stories

Write a story about a character experiencing anxiety.

General – 101 stories

Write a story about a character who starts out as a pessimist and ends as an optimist. (Or vice versa.)

General – 53 stories

Write a short story about someone based on their shopping list.

General – 53 stories

Write a short story about a shop that takes place over a span of years.

General – 46 stories

Write a short story about someone watching a convincing infomercial. 

General – 23 stories

Write a short story about someone searching for the perfect gift for their partner.

Romance – 68 stories

Write a short story about someone in the middle of a very long and busy retail shift.

Comedy – 49 stories

Write a story about a very skilled pickpocket. 

General – 71 stories

"It was just here!" you shout, frantically searching your pockets for the missing thing.

General – 32 stories

Write a story about someone cleaning out their attic. They find an old piece of clothing, and inside of its pocket is an old keepsake.

General – 57 stories

Your fingers tensed around the object in your pocket, ready to pull it out at a moment's notice.

General – 46 stories

Write a story about a character who buys a secondhand coat and then discovers something in the pocket.

General – 107 stories

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