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Someone on quora asked:

I am bored and I really love writing so I want to write a short story. What are some good Topics?

Write about your city, about something that can only happen there.

Write about someone’s first love. And how it was lost.

Write about someone who has a friend who’s in trouble. Accused of something bad. And eventually redeemed.

Write about a tourist, lost in a strange city after having taken the wrong bus.

Write about a woman who meets a stranger in a restaurant, and he tells her something that changes her life forever.

Write about a man on his deathbed, confessing something to his son, about an event that happened three decades ago.

Write about a hunter stalking his prey, only to realize his prey was wilier than he thought, and that soon, he would become the prey.

Write about a falling star, and how it changes the lives of the people in a small town

Write about a criminal who victimizes someone he shouldn’t have and lives to regret it

Write about a man living a lie, hiding from his past, and how it eventually catches up with him.

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