Category Archives: Topics for Short Stories

John Marsden Writing Topic #239

Write the transcript of a completely chaotic TV newscast** KMP News have an aesthetically exquisite, professional and well-known news team. With the charismatic Clint Barron as anchor, stunner Gina Wolf as co-anchor, man’s man Johnny Oxford as sportscaster and foresightful weatherman, Jack Dengate. The KMP News team always read the news with poise and without fail, making viewers feel at

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John Marsden Writing Topic #176

He/she chose to destroy, because he/she did not understand**   The Search She chose to destroy, because she did not understand how she could attract a boy.   She chose to destroy, because she did not understand why boys would hurt, the feeling something she could not stand.   She chose to destroy, because she did not understand, how she

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John Marsden Writing Topic #177

Love’s not the way to treat a friend** #Even though this is the ‘Topics for Short Stories’ category, I felt this poem about a man I briefly dated and ended up being friends with for a little while, only for the friendship to end too, fitted for this topic. Unrequited Blindness We’ll see each other, we’ll click, we’ll talk we’ll

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John Marsden Writing Topic #228

Describe tomorrow** What Tomorrow Means to Me Tomorrow is defined in the dictionary as “(on) the day after today; (in) the future”.# But for me tomorrow is the future, both the set in stone chronological future that tomorrow is the 18th, next month’s tomorrow is July and next year’s tomorrow is 2017 and the future that I am yet to

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John Marsden Writing Topic #206

Write about a librarian who tries to discourage people from borrowing books** Good Old Days Everyday Shirley took the bus to work. While she chose to embrace the landscape outside as if it was an everyday scenic tour, her fellow commuters chose the small virtual world of their smart phones to be caught up in. Shirley would frown upon this,

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